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Last broadcast on Sat, 20 Jun 2009, 10:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
John McCarthy talks to three professional travel photographers about their different experiences and approaches to taking particular kinds of pictures.
Lisa Young works all over the world for both commercial and charitable organisations; Adrian Arbib takes politically conscious photographs of threatened tribes and ecological protest movements; and Bill Birkett is a photographer of hills and climbing, particularly in the Lake District.
They compare notes on techniques, problems and aims in the fast changing digital age, and discuss what drives them on in difficult and dangerous conditions to capture the defining image of a place.
Lisa Young
Lisa Young is a photographer and travel writer. Having become interested in photography as a child, at the age of twenty one she went to New York to be an assistant to a studio portrait photographer. However she travelled for pleasure and took many photos on the way, eventually combining her passions for photography and travel in her career. Lisa now lives in London and has visited many countries around the world to take pictures for a wide variety of clients: tourist boards, magazines, in-flight publications, aid agencies and NGOs.
Adrian Arbib
Adrian Arbib is a human rights and environment photographer. Adrian switched from studying art to photography, then in 1986 the environmentalist George Monbiot asked Adrian to join him on a trip to West Papua where the tribes were under threat from mineral and forest exploitation. Adrian has since been to Mongolia, Sudan, Rwanda, Kenya and Namibia but now mostly covers environmental issues in the UK.
Solsbury Hill: Chronicle of a Road Protest
by Adrian Arbib, George Monbiot, Paul Kingsnorth
Publisher: The Bardwell Press
ISBN-10: 1905622201
ISBN-13: 978-1905622207
Bill Birkett
Bill Birkett is a mountain and climbing writer and photographer. He started taking photographs as a boy accompanying his father, a climber and naturalist, protecting falcons’ eggs. He has climbed extensively abroad and in the UK but specialises in his home region of the Lake District about which he has published many books of photographs and guides including a series on ‘A Year in the Life of…’ various places in Scotland and the Lake District.
A Year in the Life of Buttermere
Publisher: Frances Lincoln Publishers Ltd
ISBN-10: 0711229872
ISBN-13: 978-0711229877
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Sat 20 Jun 200910:00
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