Destination & travel photographer Jesper Anhede

Examples from destination and travel photographer and filmmaker Jesper Anhede. Based in Sweden, working worldwide.

Africa

Kenya, Tanzania, Seychelles, South Africa

Asia

India, Maldives, Sri Lanka, Tajikistan, Thailand

Caribbean

Bonaire, Guadeloupe, Jamaica

Central America

Costa Rica, Nicaragua

Europe

Scandinavia, Iceland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Faroe Islands

North America

Canada, USA, Mexico

Oceania

Tahiti, Cook Island, Niue, Tonga

Deifinition of travel photography

Travel photography is a genre of photography that may involve the documentation of an area’s landscape, people, cultures, customs, and history. The Photographic Society of America defines a travel photo as an image that expresses the feeling of a time and place, portrays a land, its people, or a culture in its natural state, and has no geographical limitations.

Travel photography as a genre is one of the most open in terms of the subjects it covers. Many travel photographers specialize in a particular aspect of photography such as travel portraits, landscape or documentary photography as well as shooting all aspects of travel. Much of today’s Travel Photography style is derived from early work in Magazines such as National Geographic magazine from photographers such as Steve McCurry. This genre of photography entails shooting a wide variety of subjects under varied available conditions, e.g. low light photography indoors, available ambient light photography for exteriors of buildings and monuments, shooting on the streets where sometimes conditions may be hostile, capturing moments which rarely recur, capturing the magic of light while shooting landscapes, etc.

As travel has become more accessible, more and more, the genre is opening up to amateurs and professionals alike. Amateur Travel photography is often shared through sites like Flickr, 500px and 1x. Travel photography, unlike other genres like fashion, product, or food photography, is still an underestimated and relatively less monetized genre, though the challenges faced by travel photographers are a lot greater than some of the genres where the light and other shooting conditions may be controllable. Traditionally travel photographers earned money through Stock photography, magazine assignments, and commercial projects. Nowadays, the stock photography market has collapsed and more and more photographers are using more innovative methods of earning a living such as through blogging, public speaking, commercial projects, and teaching.

Countries I have worked in (not complete list)

AFRICA:
Cape Verde
Egypt
Ethiopia
Kenya
Morocco
Mozambique
Senegal
Seychelles
South Africa
Tanzania
The Gambia
Uganda

EUROPE:
Belgium
Denmark
England
Faroe Island
Finland
France
Germany
Greece
Hungary
Iceland
Latvia
Norway
Poland
Russia
Spain
Sweden
The Netherlands
Turkey
Ukraine