The Traveling Image Makers
by Ugo Cei and Ralph Velasco
Travel photography is all about the people, the food, the architecture, and the culture that make each place a special one. It mixes elements of landscape photography, portraiture and reportage and aims to combine all of these and paint a compelling picture of what it's like to live in a foreign country. Every week we interview a photographer or we host a roundtable discussion on all aspects of travel photography: from planning to scouting locations, from security and the economics of traveling, to how we can travel responsibly and sustainably, with tips about the best equipment, how to interact with people and how to pack light and efficiently. We will share the inspiring work of masters and amateurs and discover what compels them to travel many hours and cross many borders to get THE shots. See acast.com/
Episodes
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TTIM 191 – Ibarionex Perello and Diversity in Photography
A few weeks ago I had a conversation on this podcast with our common friend Valérie Jardin. Most of the discussion we had was centered around an article published on the New York Daily News and titled When your photograph harms me: New York should look to curb unconsensual photography of women.…
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TTIM 190 – Mattias Sjölund and the Magic of Scandinavia
Our guest this week is Swedish landscape photographer Mattias Sjölund. Mattias has an inherent passion for photographing and hiking in nature. He is the founder of Foto Magica, one of the leading organizers of photo tours and workshops in Scandinavia. We asked Mattias about his favorite…
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Matt Bishop, an Australian in Rome
Matt Bishop, our guest for this week’s episode of the podcast, is an Australian who visited Italy many years ago, fell in love with the place and one of its people and never looked back. Matt was raised up in the small seaside town of Sorrento, Australia. During his childhood years there was...
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Jordana Wright in Belize
We're super happy to have again as a guest on our podcast Jordana Wright, who we already interviewed in episode TTIM 104 – Jordana Wright and The Enthusiast’s Guide to Travel Photography. Jordana says of herself: "I’ve had a camera in my hand for over 75% of my life. Originally it was a plastic...
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Else Kramer, the Photosopher
This week's guest of the show is Else Kramer, who likes to define herself as a Renaissance woman, a photosopher, making the visible invisible, a coach to gifted women and a wearer of polka-dot dresses. Here is how Else talks about herself on her website: "I spend most of my day looking at the…
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Darlene Hildebrandt and Artificial Intelligence
Darlene Hildebrandt is the creator of Digital Photo Mentor. She has been a professional photographer for over 30 years, and as such, she has photographed everything from soup to hay—literally—including doing food photography; weddings; family portraits; corporate events and products. After a…
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Valérie Jardin on Consensual Street Photography
Our guest on this week’s episode of the podcast is Valérie Jardin. Valérie is a visual storyteller recognized internationally for her street photography. She leads workshops worldwide, writes books, produces a weekly podcast, and is an official X Photographer for Fujifilm USA. We asked Valérie…
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A Conversation With Charlotte Brett
Charlotte Brett is a landscape and travel photographer based just outside London. With a passion to see and photograph diverse places around the world, in recent years she has travelled to China, Morocco, Cuba, Ecuador and The Seychelles. As well as capturing big landscapes and cityscapes,...
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Storytelling
Does every picture tell a story? What does it actually take to create storytelling photographs? This week, Ugo, Ralph and special guest Kav Dadfar discuss the ins and outs of storytelling in travel photography.
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An Interview with Colby Brown
In episode 182 Ugo interviews Colby Brown. We have wanted to interview Colby for a long time and, thanks also to the pandemic, we finally managed to find him stuck at home long enough us to be able to arrange this. Colby Brown is a photographer, photo educator and author based out of Eastern...
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One-on-One with Ugo and Ralph
In this episode Ugo and Ralph catch up after a few months and discuss their recent travels, to Italy and Turkey respectively.
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Pete DeMarco in Singapore
After a looong pause, The Traveling Image Makers podcast is back on the air and an old friend is back too! Pete DeMarco, who has previously on the show in episodes TTIM 96 – Peter DeMarco in Asia and TTIM 146 – Matt Brandon and Pete DeMarco in Malaysia is an American expat currently living in…
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Luka Esenko and PhotoHound
This week's guest on the podcast is premiere outdoor photographer, photo workshop leader and PhotoHound app co-creator Luka Esenko. Ralph "sat down" with Luka to get an update on what he's been up to lately and he asked him in-depth questions about why the switch from Snapp Guides to PhotoHound…
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Tomás Tigchelaar Lourenço and Give Sea Life a Hand
Tomás Tigchelaar Lourenço, our guest for this episode of the podcast, is not a photographer, but he is using the power of photographs to effect some powerful change in the world. In December of 2017 Tomás started the @GiveSealifeAHand Cleanup movement on Instagram. This movement started during a...
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Kav Dadfar
Our guest for this week’s episode of the podcast is Kav Dadfar. Kav is a professional writer and travel and landscape photographer, based on the outskirts of London, in leafy Surrey. Kav has worked on various assignments as well as for commercial clients. His travel images are represented by...
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Paul Zizka in the Icy Wilderness
Our guest for this week’s episode of the podcast is Canadian nature photographer and adventurer Paul Zizka. From the peaks of the Canadian Rockies to iceberg-laden seas off the coast of Greenland, Paul’s journey to capture the “under-documented” is a testament to his passion for exploration, his...
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Valérie Jardin in France
We're really excited to have back on the show one of our favorite guests and best friend, street photographer extraordinaire Valérie Jardin. Valérie is a French photographer, currently residing in the United States. She is self-taught and worked for several years as a commercial photographer....
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Andrew Gibson and Travel Photography When You Can’t Travel
Nowadays travel to most of the world has sadly become impossible. Photographers, and especially travel photographers, are trying to find ways to keep their juices flowing while they can’t go very far or, in some cases, are not even allowed to leave their home. Andrew Gibson is a photographer who...
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TTIM 173 – Carnival in Rio de Janeiro
Our co-host Ralph Velasco recently returned from spending a few days at one of the most popular festivals in the world: the Carnival of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. On this week’s episode of the podcast, he shares with us his experience and gives some useful tips for those wanting to partake in it.
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Darlene Hildebrandt and the Venice Carnival
One of our favorite guests is back on the show! When Ugo interviewed Darlene Hildebrandt in episode 85, she expressed her intention to come to Venice for the Carnival and join the workshop that Ugo leads there every year. Darlene is the creator of Digital Photo Mentor. She has been a professional...
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Pia Parolin in Madagascar
Madagascar is a fabulous but also very troubled country. Its separation from Africa, millions of years ago, made it into a somewhat isolated an unique ecosystems with animals and plants that can only be found there. When people came to the island, they started exploiting its vast natural riches…
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Valentina Tamborra, I Am The Border
What does it mean to live on the border? It might be the border between humanity’s last dwelling at the edge of the Arctic, or the thin red line between continents, where migrants are trapped in a limbo and forgotten, or mountains of trash, where a few desperate people live precariously between...
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Amy Inman, Grapes and Heroes
The guest of this week’s episode is not a photographer, but we thought the story she wanted to tell deserved recognition. The reason we travel to and photograph certain locations is because we love them and we would do anything to preserve them. High on the list of most-loved places for us sits…
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Fear of Traveling
After a few months of absence, The Traveling Image Makers Podcast is back on air! In this episode, Ugo and Ralph discuss how fear of the consequences of recent events, including the spread of the coronavirus infection in China, is impacting world travel and what travelers can do to ensure their…
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Stefania Boglioli in Kenya
Our guest for this episode of the podcast defines herself as a photographer, a philosopher, a writer and a wanderer. Stefania Boglioli is also a blogger, a visual story teller and a travel companion with a passion for sharing her journeys and her perspective with fellow curious travellers. She…
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Pedro Kin in Patagonia and the Dolomites
Pedro Kin is a Portuguese landscape photographer based in Slovakia but you’ll often find him chasing the light in the most beautiful mountains, forests and fjords of Europe. Favouring the cold landscapes and the raw nature of northern Europe, the weather does not stop him from going after the...
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Erin Babnik on Resilience
This episode of the podcast was scheduled to be recorded months ago. On the day we were supposed to be interviewing our guest, Erin Babnik, she emailed us asking to reschedule, since she was being evacuated from her house in Paradise, California. Erin Babnik is known internationally as a leading...
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Ariel Estulin in Nepal and Tibet
An award winning photographer and photo educator. Primarily interested in landscapes, he travels the world seeking out beauty in those wild and remote places on earth that still remain untouched by civilization and where nature commands ultimate attention. Self-taught as a photographer, he spent...
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Jason Teale in Korea
The guest for this episode of the podcast is Jason Teale, a Canadian photographer who has made South Korea his home for more than ten years now. Jason’s work focuses on travel landscapes and cityscapes as well as cinemagraphs. He is a brand ambassador for Flixel and managed their photographic…
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Martin Bailey in Japan
Recently Ugo bought a couple flight tickets to Japan, a country he will be visiting for the first time this year. Wanting to learn more about the place and how to photograph it best, he naturally thought of the photographers he knows that are intimately familiar with it? Looking at the list of…
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TTIM 161 – David duChemin and The Traveling Lens
The guest for this episode of the podcast is an old friend of the Traveling Image Makers podcast. We recorded episode TTIM 66 – David duChemin and The Soul of the Camera with him a while back. David is a world & humanitarian assignment photographer, best-selling author, digital publisher, and...
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TTIM 160 – Mike Holp, the Digital Nomad
In this week’s episode of the podcast, Ugo interviews Mike Holp. Mike is a digital nomad and travel photographer from Austin, Texas. He’s been traveling in South America for over a year, capturing photos of beautiful destinations, and meeting new friends from all over the world! Mike is offering…
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TTIM 159 – Simon Bond and Creative Photography
Last week’s interview with Jay Patel, where we discussed the topic of creativity is a great segue into today’s episode, because we are going to have a conversation with an artist that has chosen creative photography as his trademark of sorts. Simon Bond is a professional freelance travel...
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TTIM 158 – Jay Patel and Creativity
Today’s episode of the podcast sees the return of one of our best friends, who was with us already in episode 36, Jay Patel. In the course of the conversation, Jay and Ugo discuss such topics as getting the shots when the weather is not cooperating, researching a destination to make the most of...
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TTIM 157 – Winners of the October 2018 Photo Contest
As you might know, we are doing a bi-monthly photo contest on our Facebook group, The Traveling Image Makers’ Corner. We invite the group members to submit one of their best photographs and, at the end of the period, we pick two winners and invite them to come on the show and tell us about their...
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TTIM 156 – Marc De Tollenaere and Venice Still Dances
Our guest for this episode is Marc De Tollenaere, a photographer from Venice, Italy. Marc works full time as a photographer and is proud to be a teacher of photography for the most famous brand of cameras, Leica. He published several books about Venice and its countryside, as well as on countless...
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TTIM 155 - Karen Hutton and Slovenia
It’s always exciting to listen to Karen Hutton talk about her travels and her passions and, after having had her as a guest on episode 34, it was about time that we invited her back. Karen Hutton is an International Landscape and Travel Photographer, Artist, Speaker, Author, Educator, Voice. She...
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TTIM 154 – Leigh Diprose in Europe
The guest for this episode of the podcast, as his LinkedIn profile states, is a Business Manager, Communication and Social Media Specialist with over 15 years of marketing, communication and sales experience, working for a major manufacturer of photo equipment. But first of all, Leigh Diprose is…
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TTIM 153 – Expert Roundup 4, What Makes a Great Travel Photo
This week’s edition of the podcast is a bit special. Unlike our typical episode, where we have a conversation with a guest, what we’ve done this time is to contact some of our previous guests and ask them one question. We’ve already done this twice in the past, when we published our “expert...
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TTIM 152 – Georgia and Armenia
In this episode, a conversation between Ralph and Ugo about the former’s recent trip to a pair of small, not very well-known, but beautiful and welcoming countries: Georgia and Armenia. These two countries with a long history, which regained their independence after the collapse of the Soviet...
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TTIM 151 – Mike Gulbraa Around the World
For this episode of the podcast (absent Ralph, who was traveling to Costa Rica) Ugo had the opportunity to interview Mike Gulbraa, who has been into photography for over 45 years and he has visited 162 countries to date. Mike, a published and award-winning photographer, established M&M Photo…
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TTIM 150 – South-East Asia
In this episode of the podcast, Ralph interviews Ugo about his recent trip to a trio of countries in Southeast Asia: Singapore, Malaysia, and Cambodia. These countries are culturally rich and diverse and visually stimulating, so we think they should be on every traveling photographer’s radar.…
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TTIM 149 – Daniel Rosca in Romania
While Ralph was touring Romania, he had a chance to sit down and interview Daniel Roșca, a local photographer and tour operator. Together, they discussed what makes Romania a destination that is becoming more and more sought after by photographers worldwide, thanks in no small part to its…
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TTIM 148 – Winners of the July 2018 Photo Contest
As you might know, we are doing a bi-monthly photo contest on our Facebook group, The Traveling Image Makers’ Corner. We invite the group members to submit one of their best photographs and, at the end of the period, we pick two winners and invite them to come on the show and tell us about their...
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TTIM 147 – Patrick Monahan in Copper Canyon
This week's guest is Patrick Monahan who has gone from a successful career in the high tech industry to traveling the world and now leading tours. In this episode, Ralph sits down with Patrick on a huge rock overlooking Mexico's Copper Canyon to discuss his travel and photography experience, and...
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TTIM 146 – Matt Brandon and Pete DeMarco in Malaysia
This week’s episode is a special one. It was recorded on location by Ugo in Penang, Malaysia, where he had the pleasure to meet face-to-face with two great friends and previous guests on the show: Matt Brandon and Pete DeMarco. Matt Brandon is a Malaysia-based assignment photographer; Matt has...
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TTIM 145 – Harry Fisch and Authenticity
Harry Fisch has been a photographer for more years than he cares to remember. He has photographically documented more than 40 countries through which he has travelled. Winner of the 2012 World National Geographic Photo Contest (places), and later disqualified, his work has deserved several…
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TTIM 144 – PhotoJoseph on Travel Videography and India
Our guest for this week is Joseph “PhotoJoseph” Linaschke, a content creator, educator and YouTuber. He’s been shooting since the age of seven, teaching and presenting on stage to audiences around the globe for over 20 years, and runs an online resource for photo and video education at...
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TTIM 143 – Maria Vazquez and Pastel Moods
Our guest for this week’s episode of the podcast is Maria (or Marioly) Vazquez. We came to hear of Maria via another guest of ours, Scott Kelby, who mentioned her during his interview. We were talking about style in photography and not even knowing her, Scott brought up Maria’s Instagram...
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TTIM 142 – Dancho Hristov, Bulgaria, and Birds
For the past 5 years, Dancho Hristov has been a working landscape and wildlife photographer based in Sofia, Bulgaria. He first dabbled in photography at the age of 13, starting with an old Zenit film camera. Several years later his interest in wildlife, and in particular birds, led him to his…
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About this show
Travel photography is all about the people, the food, the architecture, and the culture that make each place a special one. It mixes elements of landscape photography, portraiture and reportage and aims to combine all of these and paint a compelling picture of what it's like to live in a foreign country.
Every week we interview a photographer or we host a roundtable discussion on all aspects of travel photography: from planning to scouting locations, from security and the economics of traveling, to how we can travel responsibly and sustainably, with tips about the best equipment, how to interact with people and how to pack light and efficiently.
We will share the inspiring work of masters and amateurs and discover what compels them to travel many hours and cross many borders to get THE shots.
See acast.com/
Hosted by
Ugo Cei and Ralph Velasco