Travel Tips From The Pros

There is a lot you can read and learn about travel photography. But practical knowledge from the professionals who have been shooting this genre since a longtime amassing experience over decades is always something that comes in handy in every situation. So we thought in this month’s issue we would ask two varied travel photographers, Myriam Casper and Amit Vakil, who have covered an array of national and international locations between them for some practical tips that can be helpful to you.

- Kasturi Pawar

MYRIAM CASPER

Myriam is a photographer, editor and documentary filmmaker. Photography and teaching are her main passions. Myriam has been traveling since very young age. She grew up in four nations: France, Brazil, Portugal, England and today she lives in Canada. She formed her skills and developed an incredible passion for b&w photography and hand printing in the darkroom of stamford college, on the north side of london. From years spent amid the vibrancy and drama of Brazil her approach to photograph people and to become part of their own lives come very naturally, making lifestyle and humanity her strongest topics for storytelling. After moving to Canada, Myriam discovered more passions, nature and wildlife. Hiking the beautiful mountains of british Columbia, and observing animals by distance, became a sacred routine. And then she visited Antarctica… it’s there that her inspiration finds new “lymph” watching the nature’s wonder of icebergs and wildlife in the cold. Myriam understood that remote places of earth have much to say to her as a filmmaker and photographer.

1) You recently went to Antarctica on a photography assignment. Would you like to share more details about it?

Absolutely. My first trip to Antarctica was in 2017 on a National Geographic expedition. I fell in love with Antarctica right away, I knew I had to find the way to go back. Two years later, the opportunity arrived. This time to spend two months and with the addition to visit the Falkland Islands and South Georgia Islands.

My project idea is to document the impact of climate change in Antarctica and its wildlife. I’m hoping to be able to go back once a year.