Travel Photography Is About People: How to Connect, Approach Strangers, and Make Photographs That Matter

For nineteen years, Strobist has been about light. This post is about the other thing, the bigger thing, the thing that took me forty years and ten thousand assignments to fully understand. The success or failure of a travel photographer is not decided by gear, and only partly by technique. It is decided by how well you connect with the people and places in front of your camera. This is the one post Strobist will ever need on travel photography. Everything below is the condensed version of what I now believe. What is The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto? The Traveling Photographer's Manifest

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