If you could go anywhere...

[ray_g]

If you could go anywhere on earth, all expenses paid, to PHOTOGRAPH, where would you go and why (ie, what type of photography)?

Example: I would go to the the Great Barrier Reef because I like underwater photography, particularly those of sharks in a feeding frenzy.

 

[FrankS]

Japan for all types of photography: street, people, culture modern and traditional, architecture new and old, landscape. I lived there for a year 22 years ago and I'd go back there before other places I've never been.

 

[sf]

Go anywhere on the planet to take pictures. . . .what type of photography. . .

Russia. Somewhere in Russia. I am fascinated with Russia after learning about it and its literature in college. People and landscapes, of course. Perferably a combination of the two. People IN the landscape.

 

[back alley]

i just finished a long email to friends back home and i'm feeling nostalgic...i would love to go home to new york and visit them and take lots of photos of them and then hit manhattan for some street shooting.

that being said...

if i had the time & funds (& health) i would drive around canada and the states and just photograpgh everything.

joe

 

[bmattock]

I am nearly always where I want to be. When I lived in Okinawa, I found it fascinating. When in Denver, the same. Albuquerque, ditto. Now that I'm in North Carolina, once again I find the important bits - mostly here or very near here. A day trip, a train ride if needed to get me closer to something I'm after.

Really? Truly? I don't want to go anywhere. I am always at home, and I always feel like a tourist.

When Brassai and Hemingway and Kertesz and Miller and Nin were all in Paris, was it because Paris was fascinating, or was Paris fascinating because they were there?

I would love to travel again, but if I never do, I am content. I have no great desire to go someplace else specifically to photograph.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks

 

[Dfin]

London, Paris, New York, Rome just send the money NOW! Because the whole world will pass your viewfinder at some stage, well the people at least. Oh, ray_g, sharks look at us as Lunch. I say this because 2 weeks ago I meet a surfer who survived a white pointer attack, just.

 

[sf]

Well, this would make an interesting contest, wouldn't it? That is . . .if we could find a sponsor interested in paying someone to go on a photo vacation somewhere. They might have something to gain, putting their new product out for a real world test drive. It would make for unque marketing and reviews.

 

[captainslack]

Europe. All of it.

 

[Fedzilla_Bob]

I have never been off of North America. Never made it happen.

Right now I want to go to Orca Island. I had been there once, 9 years ago. I want to take my wife. Frankly, I would like to go there and stay.

I need to work on that.

 

[Laurence]

I would love to go to the Greenland coast. There are beautiful mountains there, and believe it or not there are some wonderful green meadows and subalpine terrain. Very pristine, very photogenic. This would be a fine destination to see unspoiled landscapes.

 

[oftheherd]

Interesting thought. I am something like bmattock, but not completely. I didn't find the area aroung Ft Knox or Ft Campbell as interesting as I would have liked. Still, there were areas I enjoyed photographing. And while at Ft Knox, my wife and I took a trip throughout the US west that was fascinating. That is something I would love to do again. Not the same trip, or at least not in the same 3 week time frame. What interesting history and scenery is there!

Asia? Southeast Asia would be interesting. Many of us there used to say Vietnam was a beautiful country if it weren't for the war. Now there is no war. Korea is where I rediscovered photography. The first time I really enjoyed traveling to some of the quiet mountain temples. They were pituresque, quiet, and inexpensive. Even the next two times I was there I found lots to photograph. Now everyone has a car and is a tourist.

Actually, I live in the Washington, DC area. Why aren't I out photographing this area more? The small China Town is interesting. There are Korean and Vietnamese enclaves. Back to what bmattock said.

 

[rool]

I would go to India. Wonderful place to travel, lot of life and colour.
Not that easy to photograph though...

 

[lushd]

Afghanistan - every time I see it on the TV I am astounded by the physical beauty of the landscape. I would also enjoy more visits to Scandanavia.

 

[ruben]

What I would like it most, right now, is to go to Madrid to meet Beniliam and his friends, and have some weeks of roaming together around the streets, while chating at the same time, drinking wine, and eating that delicious jamon serrano driving me crazy.

After that, I am accomplished enough to enter the other world

 

[c.poulton]

Iran.

Now that is an interesting country to visit!

Don't know how easy it would be at the moment for a photographer out there - I guess you would just have to be careful about what you take pictures of?

 

[sf]

Actaully, if I could go anywhere, it would have to be to a place as far from another human as possible. Just to see how it feels. Take a few pictures, walk around a bit, and get on back into the world again.

 

[JohanV]

I went to Scotland three years ago and promptly fell in love with the place.
Back then, I just took some holiday snapshots, and I only started studying photography after my return. So I now wish I could go back with my M7 and Hasselblad or even the Toyo...

 

[steamer]

I'm dying to get back to Mongolia. The light is so pure and clear. and the scenery is gorgeous and the people are mostly wonderful. Like JohanV, I only got serious about photography after I returned from a trip there. Guess I'll be going back in July and hope to turn loose my Iskra, Contax II and all kinds of Zeiss glass and see what develops.
Steamer

 

[Kim Coxon]

I would like to go back to Sealion Island off the Falklands. About 2 years after I came back I was asked to do a presentaion and I took all my best slides. The carousel was locked safely away at the end of the evening for collection the next day while we went to get something to eat. When I went back the next day, all that was there was the smouldering ruin of the building. I still have the prints from those slides but it is not the same.

Kim

 

[bmattock]

Iran.

Now that is an interesting country to visit!

Don't know how easy it would be at the moment for a photographer out there - I guess you would just have to be careful about what you take pictures of?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3070895.stm

Canadian journalist 'beaten to death'

Iran has acknowledged that a Canadian-Iranian photojournalist was beaten to death after her arrest outside a prison in Tehran.

Vice President Ali Abtahi said Zahra Kazemi died "of a brain haemorrhage resulting from beatings".

Ms Kazemi, 54, was detained on 23 June for taking pictures of Tehran's Evin prison. She was later pronounced dead after falling into a coma

But officials in Tehran are still refusing to allow Canada to conduct its own investigation into the photographer's death.

Yes, you would need to be very careful, I think.

Best Regards,

Bill Mattocks