Featured
Travel photographers
Featured
Travel photography records places, people and ways of life met on the road. This guide covers its main approaches, its history from Maxime Du Camp and Francis Frith to National Geographic, questions of ethics, and basic techniques.
Marc Riboud (1923–2016) was a French Magnum photographer. He is known for his painter on the Eiffel Tower, the young woman with a flower at the Pentagon, and forty years of pictures of China.
George Rodger (1908–1995) was a British photojournalist and a founder of Magnum Photos. He photographed the Blitz and the liberation of Bergen-Belsen for LIFE, then spent more than thirty years photographing the peoples of Africa, above all the Nuba of Sudan.
Sam Abell (born 1945) is an American documentary photographer who worked for National Geographic for 33 years. His calm, carefully composed color pictures follow one simple rule: compose and wait.
Pete Turner was an American pioneer of color photography. His bold, saturated pictures, from Giraffe to more than a hundred jazz album covers, showed that color itself could be the subject.
Jeffrey Marqusee is a photographer and chemist. His photobook The Last Refuge of Tibetan Buddhism combines pictures he made in Mustang, Nepal, in 1979 and 2014.
Eric Meola is an American photographer known for his work in color. He photographed the cover of Bruce Springsteen's Born to Run in 1975. His books include Fierce Beauty and Bending Light.
Zsanett Fodor is a Hungarian amateur photographer from Eger. In her series Moments of Crete, she turns a trip to the Greek island into photo collages.
Elizabeth Sanjuan is a visual artist who photographs people, landscapes and built places around the world. Her book Silent Snow: Hokkaido (Daylight Books, 2025) comes from winter journeys to Hokkaido, Japan.
Alex Kittoe is a photographer and visual artist based in Kansas City. His book 024 (Setanta Books, 2025) gathers photographs from years of travel.
Trey Ratcliff (born 1971) is an American travel photographer who lives in Queenstown, New Zealand. He is best known for his HDR photographs and for his blog Stuck in Customs, where he has shared a free photo every day for many years.
Ami Vitale (born 1971) is an American photographer, writer and filmmaker based in Montana. She started out covering conflict as a photojournalist and has worked in more than 100 countries.
Art Wolfe (born 1951) is an American photographer and conservationist from Seattle. For nearly fifty years he has photographed wildlife, landscapes and cultures all over the world.
Jimmy Nelson (born 1967) is a British-born photographer based in Amsterdam. He makes large, carefully staged color portraits of indigenous peoples around the world.
Steve McCurry (born 1950) is an American photographer known for his color portraits and his long work in Asia. His portrait Afghan Girl was on the cover of National Geographic in June 1985.