Travel Photography Live! is a highly interactive, informative and hugely entertaining weekend at London’s Royal Geographical Society. Nick Danziger, Steve Bloom, Eamonn McCabe, Jason Hawkes, Timothy Allen, Tom Mackie and Chris Weston are just a few of the photographic ‘giants’ who’ll be sharing the secrets behind their iconic images. Tickets cost £25 for the keynote lecture evening, with Saturday or Sunday tickets costing £65 each and a Festival Pass (covering all three days) £130.

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TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHY LIVE!

Photography comes alive at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) October 5th-7th

Following on from its hugely successful exhibition there this summer, Travel Photographer of the Year is returning to London’s Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) this autumn for Travel Photography Live! And it’s bringing some world-renowned photographers with it.

Nick Danziger, Steve Bloom, Eamonn McCabe, Jason Hawkes, Timothy Allen, Tom Mackie and Chris Weston are just a few of the photographic ‘giants’ who’ll be sharing the secrets behind their iconic images, and insights into their photography, with the audience of photographers and travellers.

Travel Photography Live! will be a highly interactive, informative and hugely entertaining weekend, at which visitors can meet and learn from top professional photographers in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.

The event kicks off in style on the evening of Friday, October 5th, with the keynote lectures in the Society’s magnificent Ondaatje Theatre. Nick Danziger - travel photographer, filmmaker and one of the world’s most renowned photojournalists – will take the audience ‘Around the World in 80 Images’. And Steve Bloom - famed documenter of the apartheid years in South Africa, and award-winning travel and wildlife photographer – will present the story of his photographic journey ‘From 1970’s South Africa to the world today’.

This is followed by two action-packed days, where photography lovers will be spoilt for choice, with talks and workshops going on throughout the Society. These will cover many areas of photography, including wildlife, aerial, adventure, fine art, advertising, editorial, travel and reportage, how to make money from photography, working with light, shooting on HD video, the art of editing images, the story of travel photography – and ‘Travel Photography is Dead!’

Speakers include:
• Eamonn McCabe – four-times winner of Sports Photographer of the Year, winner of News Photographer of the Year, and former Guardian Picture Editor
• Tom Mackie - one of the world’s leading landscape photographers
• Mark Edward Harris - leading stock & fine art travel photographer from the USA
• Chris Weston - renowned wildlife photographer
• Craig Easton - travel photographer who shot many of the promotional images for the London Olympics
• Timothy Allen - photographer for BBC Human Planet
• Jason Hawkes - award-winning aerial photographer
• Nick Meers - travel, landscape & panoramic photographer
• Martin Hartley - expedition photographer
• Philip Lee Harvey - travel & advertising photographer
• Jeremy Hoare - travel photographer & former TV cameraman
• Colin Finlay - stock photography expert
• Caroline Metcalfe - Director of Photography, Condé Nast Traveller
• Philip Lee Harvey - travel & advertising photographer
• Mary Robert - lecturer in photography
• Abi King – leading travel blogger
• Chris Coe - travel photographer & founder of the Travel Photographer of the Year awards (TPOTY)

There will also be imaging workshops, equipment advice and individual photo critique sessions - where festival visitors can get feedback on their own shots from leading experts. And there will be a ‘pop-up’ shop, at which visitors can buy TPOTY books, prints and cards, together with books by some of the speakers.

Tickets cost £25 for the keynote lecture evening, with Saturday or Sunday tickets costing £65 each and a Festival Pass (covering all three days) £130. These prices are reduced to £20, £50 and £105 respectively for members of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), registered students, and Travel Photographer of the Year entrants. In addition, TPOTY is offering special ‘Earlybird’ discounts off all these ticket prices to anyone booking by September 10th.

For further information and to book tickets visit http://tpotylive.eventbrite.co.uk

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