Archive for August, 2011

Portraits of Asia

Portraits of Asia by Piet Van den Eynde

In 2009 Piet Van den Eynde set off on a year long 6500 kilometer bicycle trip through Asia with his girlfriend. Piet is known to Craft & Vision readers as the author of Making Light and The Power of Black & White. If you’ve read the ebooks, you’ll recognise some of the photos in this article as Piet used them in his ebooks. For me, Piet’s journey shows the value of doing something for yourself, of taking time out from the day to day business of earning a living and doing something that you really want to do in another part of the world. He’s built up a body of work that can be used in future projects and on top of that had an interesting, potentially life-changing experience.

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Making Light: An ebook by Piet Van den Eynde

Making Light photography ebook cover by Piet Van den Eynde

Portable flash has become something of a trendy photography technique over the last few years. Advances in digital camera and wireless flash technology mean that portable flash has become increasingly sophisticated and versatile. Along with that naturally comes the desire of many photographers to learn how to master it.

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Adore Noir

Adore Noir fine art photography magazineAdore Noir is a new photography magazine aimed at fine art black and white photographers. Edited and created by Canadian photographer Chris Kovacs, each issue features the work of and interviews with six fine art photographers working in the black and white medium.

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Andes

Andes ebook cover

In 2004 I found myself in Argentina with time to kill, so I bought a bus ticket to a region that I’d always wanted to visit – the province of Salta in the northwest. It was my first trip to the Andes, and has been followed by several more since then.

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