Photography News | Issue 42 | absolutephoto.com
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Interview
TravelPhotographer of the Year This year’s competition saw three UK photographers named as category winners. We caught up with two of them to ask about their winning shots and thoughts on the competition
Interview by Jemma Dodd
With over 20,000 images submitted by photographers across the globe the Travel Photographer of the Year competition sees a diverse range of images coveringmany aspects of travel from portraits to wildlife. This year’s overall winner was Portuguese photographer Joel Santos who won prizes including £4000, StaaG luxury leather travel goods and sterling silver accessories worth over £1250, £500 to spend on Páramo clothing and a Plastic Sandwich personalised leather portfolio case. Speaking to Chris Coe, founder of Travel Photographer of the Year, he informed us that popular countries to photograph tend to
include India and African countries Namibia, Tanzania and Kenya, as well as China. If you’re thinking of entering the next Travel Photographer of the Year competition Chris has this advice to offer: “Read the entry requirements for your category, and then read them again! Make sure your pictures fit the category theme – if it’s a landscape category, don’t send us people portraits. If you’re submitting a portfolio please make sure that the pictures work well together as a set. That’s not to say that they should all be shot in the same place at the same time – find a common element that meets the category theme and
compile your portfolio around that. Make sure that all images in a portfolio are strong – you’ll drop out early in the judging if you have even one weak shot in your portfolio. And please don’t try to replicate what won the year before – each year we will receive some entries which are very similar to the previous year’s winners. Yes, take inspiration from what won before, in terms of image quality, but please don’t recreate the shots!”. The Travel Photographer of the Year 2017 competition launches in April/May. Keep up to date with the competition at tpoty.com
Above Dallol, Danakil Depression, Afar, Ethiopia by Joel Santos, Overall Winner, Travel Photographer of the Year 2016. Right Images from Son & Dad portfolio, George Town, Penang, Malaysia by Alison Cahill, Winner, New Talent – Eye to Eye.
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