Holi Festival, Bundi, Rajasthan, India
Discovering new cultures and different lifestyles is definitely one of the highlights when traveling. For me, shooting Portraits of those different cultures too! This is all the more true since traditional ways of life are disappearing at a devastating speed, replaced by a standardized, uniformed way of life. Will we all wear the same Jeans, the same T-Shirts and the same Sneakers soon? Probably! This is also why I try to travel to more remote areas, where people still stick to their culture & traditions.
At first sight, (Travel) Photography and especially Portraits can be considered intrusive and a barrier for establishing any kind of contacts with local populations and different cultures. My experience is nonetheless (at least partly) very different! If used with sensibility, and as a way to share something, Portraits can create opportunities of exchanges with people met at a market or on the streets or on a path during a trek…
In my first years as a Travel Photographer, Portraits were a really frustrating experience, and the result was almost always far bellow my actual experience and even further from my expectations. Sounds familiar? This is why I wrote an article about Improving Your Travel Pictures at Markets, as Markets often offer great opportunities.
It is always a challenging moment for a photographer to select his best pictures. It is even more difficult when you have many different subjects and when you took those pictures in so many different places… Well, I decided to go for this challenge! Here you find the 38 Portraits I prefer in my portfolio.
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- Holi Festival, Bundi, Rajasthan, India
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- Dire Dawa’s Market, East Ethiopia
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- Woman smoking, 5-Day Market on Inle Lake, Myanmar
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- Young Dancers of the Academy of Ballet, during the Feria de las Flores, Barrio de Santo Domingo, Medellin, Colombia
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- Bull-Jumping Ceremony, Hamer People, near Turmi, Lower Omo Valley, South Ethiopia
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- Omani Woman at the Cattle Market in Nizwa, Sultanat of Oman
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- Tapati Rapa Nui, Tau’a, Easter Island
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- Woman picking tea leaves, near Ella, Sri Lanka
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- Folkloristic Dances, Salta, Northwest Argentina
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- At the Market in Harar, East Ethiopia
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- Man smoking, 5-Day Market on Inle Lake, Myanmar
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- Women at the market in the streets of Pushkar, Rajsthan, India
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- Young girl, 5-Day Market on Inle Lake, Myanmar
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- Young Monk at Pahto Dhammayangyi, Bagan, Myanmar
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- At the Market in Harar, East Ethiopia
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- Monk on a bicycle, 5-Day Market on Inle Lake, Myanmar
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- Ladakhi nomads, between Tso Kar & Tso Moriri, Ladakh, India
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- Afar Worker at the Salt Mines of Dallol, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia
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- Golden Dal, Lake Dal, Srinagar, Kashmir, India
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- Crina Limpia, Maimara, near San Salvador de Jujuy, Northwest Argentina
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- Bac Ha Sunday Market, North Vietnam
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- Hmong New Year’s Celebration – Phonsavanh, Laos
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- Fishermen on Inle Lake, Myanmar
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- Afar Workers and Camel Caravan at the Salt Mines of Dallol, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia
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- The “Mineros del Diabolo” or “Devils’ Minors”, inside the Cerro Rico, Potosi, Bolivia
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- Holi Festival, Bundi, Rajasthan, India
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- In the streets of Phnom Penh, Cambodia
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- Domchot at Likir Monastery or Likir Gompa, Ladakh, India
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- Holi Festival, Bundi, Rajasthan, India
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- Elephants carrying tourists up to Amber Fort, near Jaipur, Rajasthan, India
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- “Festival des Masques”, Village of Ende, Dogon Country, Mali
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- Silvia Guambiano Indigenous Market, near Popayan, Colombia
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- Bac Ha Sunday Market, North Vietnam
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- Hmong New Year’s Celebration, Phonsavanh, Laos
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- Priest at Abuna Yemata Guh, Rock-Hewn Church of Tigray, Ethiopia
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- Silvia Guambiano Indigenous Market, near Popayan, Colombia
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