The Traveling Photographer’s Manifesto: A Guide to Connecting with People and Place (Audiobook)

The best travel photos you've ever seen weren't accidents.

They’re made by photographers who know something most people don't: The picture is set in motion long before the shutter fires. Before the flight. Before the hotel. Before the light is right.

The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto is a field guide for serious amateurs and working photographers who are tired of coming home with technically correct pictures that somehow feel like they’re missing something.

Written by a career photojournalist, this audiobook will reframe your approach to both photography and travel. You’ll learn to see your camera as not just a recording device, but also as your passport to a deeper, more personal travel experience.

From David Hobby, founder of Strobist.com, the photography education resource that has taught millions of photographers to see and use light.

What you'll learn:

• How to create a self-assignment, to arrive with a story already in motion the moment you get off of a plane
• How to build genuine human connection with people who don't speak your language, have no reason to trust you, and will open doors once you've earned it
• How to strip your gear bag down to what actually matters and move through a place like you belong
• How to read and protect light in-camera, instead of correcting it away in post
• How to see composition as architecture, not arrangement, and wait for the moment that makes your frame
• In short, how to grow as a thinking photographer

This book will take you on a photo trip to Vietnam. But that's just the vehicle. The principles work in Portugal. In Detroit. In local neighborhoods you've driven past a thousand times without stopping.

Fifty-six lessons, from a lifetime behind a camera, in an audio format that will travel with you seamlessly on every future trip.

"Easily the best photography book I've read on craft, technique — and written with soul."
"I read it start to finish in one sitting."

Also available in Paperback, Hardcover, and Kindle.

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David Hobby spent twenty years as a photojournalist, completing more than 10,000 assignments before spending another twenty years teaching photographers around the world. The Traveling Photographer's Manifesto grew directly out of that experience.

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4.7★ from 142 Amazon Reviews (print edition)

7 hrs 20 min running time · Narrated by Trevor O'Hare · Plays on any iOS or Android device