I wanted to check out a documentary photographer and found Robert Leon. He is from Vancouver, Canada. He is a traveling and documentary photographer, but started out as mainly a fashion photographer for about nine years in Italy. While there he started doing travel photography throughout Greece, Italy, and Turkey by finding assignments through the people he knew in Italy. He eventually went to Guatemala, India, Israel, Mexico, and other countries. He really immerses himself into the culture and with the people to get to know them and have them become comfortable with him taking their photograph. From a medicine man in India to the Lacandons of Chiapas, Mexico ( Mayans), he really achieves capturing their unique culture and identities.
In an article for Shutterbug, he states that he mainly shoots digital unless he goes to a remote place where there is no internet or electricity available. The article can be found here : http://www.shutterbug.net/techniques/pro_techniques/1007robertleon/index.html
His website : http://www.robertleon.com/index.php
Friday, February 12, 2010
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