Travel & Resort Photography
One of the philosophical problems with photography is that it can be subdivided into various categories, depending on the subject matter and the purpose for which the photographs were taken. Often the boundaries of such divisions are specific and clear, but in other cases there is a distinct overlap and conjunction.travel photography
This is so in the case of travel photography, which can be sufficiently varied in scope to include genre such as Applied, Landscape, Portraiture, Documentary and Photojournalism. This tends to make a definition of travel photography rather difficult within that framework, so I tend to adopt a subjective definition, and suggest that travel photography is that which offers “a sense of place”. This can be expanded to suggest that successful travel pictures should inspire the viewer, and create a desire to learn more about the place, or better still, visit it.
It’s not only place, either. A set of travel pictures can represent place, as illustrated by landscape or architecture, but equally it could be showing a journey, the people who live in a particular place, or an event or activity in some particular location: or of course, a combination of any or all of those.
One also needs to qualify “place”. Travel photography doesn’t have to be “abroad”: it can take place anywhere in the world, and can start as soon as you step outside your front door. Or the door of your hotel, or your ship, canoe, tent, or cave - and now we’re getting somewhere!
This is so in the case of travel photography, which can be sufficiently varied in scope to include genre such as Applied, Landscape, Portraiture, Documentary and Photojournalism. This tends to make a definition of travel photography rather difficult within that framework, so I tend to adopt a subjective definition, and suggest that travel photography is that which offers “a sense of place”. This can be expanded to suggest that successful travel pictures should inspire the viewer, and create a desire to learn more about the place, or better still, visit it.
It’s not only place, either. A set of travel pictures can represent place, as illustrated by landscape or architecture, but equally it could be showing a journey, the people who live in a particular place, or an event or activity in some particular location: or of course, a combination of any or all of those.
One also needs to qualify “place”. Travel photography doesn’t have to be “abroad”: it can take place anywhere in the world, and can start as soon as you step outside your front door. Or the door of your hotel, or your ship, canoe, tent, or cave - and now we’re getting somewhere!
Travel & Resort Gallery
