TELL TRAVEL STORIES WITH YOUR CAMERA

Convey the essence of people and places through photography, with Andrew James as your tour guide

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Wherever you go on holiday, a new country or city provides fresh inspiration to capture with your camera. Over the following 10 pages, we'll help you approach your next adventure with an enthusiasm for telling visual stories about the people you meet and places you encounter on your journey.

Few photographic genres are as broad as travel photography. Take a look at the categories in any global travel competition and you'll realise just how diverse this subject is. For this feature, we'll concentrate on a tighter definition, one that essentially defines travel photography as the visual art of conveying the essence of a place and its people. Capturing a sense of a country's culture takes effort, a keen eye for detail and good communication skills. You have to immerse yourself in the atmosphere of a location and try to get under the skin of how the local people think, dress, work and behave.

Good narrative travel photography is a far cry from the images you might see in a glossy travel brochure. That doesn't mean your photographs can't reflect the beauty of a location, but they should also reveal all aspects of a place, saying something about the way the people live and the environment they inhabit.

PART 1

CAPTURE STREET AND MARKET LIFE

Full of noise, colour and flavour, aim to blend in on the streets to immerse yourself in the local culture