RUDOLF ABRAHAM travel writer & photographer

About

Rudolf Abraham is an award-winning writer and photographer whose love of travel and remote places has taken him from the Balkans to eastern Turkey, Central Asia and Patagonia. He has written, contributed to or illustrated numerous books, guidebooks and articles on these areas - their mountains, landscape, history and architecture.

Rudolf is available for written and photographic commissions, lectures and editing. His photographs can be licensed through this site or by using the contact form provided, as well as through Alamy or Photographers Direct.

In Andorra, April 2007 (photo by Ivana Jovic Abraham)

Rudolf Abraham has travelled extensively and repeatedly in southeast Europe, eastern Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia. During these travels he has walked and climbed in the Karakoram, the Tien Shan, Ladakh, New Zealand’s Southern Alps, Patagonia, and the mountains of Iran and eastern Turkey. He lived in Zagreb from 1999 to 2001, and continues to make several visits a year to Croatia, including numerous trips into the mountains of Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro.

Rudolf studied fine arts, majoring in photography, and holds an MA in Islamic art and archaeology from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

He is the author of Walking in Croatia (2nd edition 2010), The Mountains of Montenegro (2007, winner 'best guidebook' in the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence, 2008) and a guide to Torres del Paine (2010), all published by Cicerone, and is currently working on guidebooks to the mountains of eastern Turkey and a new Croatia guide for National Geographic Traveler. Other recent commissions have included contributing to DK Eyewitness' The Road Less Travelled and updating the Bradt guide to Croatia. He is a regular contributor to hidden europe, BBC Countryfile, CNN Traveller and Wanderlust, as well as to Alamy and Photographers Direct, and also writes on Islamic art and architecture for the Khalili Collection (one of the largest private collections of Islamic art in the world). He is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, the British Guild of Travel Writers and Writers and Photographers unLimited.

He lives in London.

To listen to an interview with Rudolf Abraham at the Outdoors Show 2007, click here (The Podzine No 6).


Details of trips planned over the next few months can be found here. Commissions welcome!

Equipment

For the record, all my photos are taken using Nikon digital (D300, 12.3 megapixels; and D200, 10.2 megapixels; image size 5000+ pixels long edge @ 300ppi) and, although hardly ever these days, film (FM2n, with Fuji Velvia) SLR bodies, and Nikkor lenses (AF-S Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G ED-IF DX, AF-S Nikkor 17-35mm f/2.8 ED-IF, AF Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED DX, Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 AIS, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AIS, AF-S Nikkor 50mm f/1.4G, AF-S Micro-Nikkor 60mm f/2.8G ED, AF-D Nikkor 105mm f/2 DC, Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/4 AIS, Nikkor 105mm f/2.5 AIS, Nikkor 180mm f/2.8 ED AIS, Nikkor 200mm f/4 AIS, Nikkor AF-S 70-200mm f/2.8G ED-IF VR… and a few other Nikkors…). Add to this a Gitzo carbon fibre tripod with Acratech ball head and RRS plates, circular polarizers and Singh-Ray graduated neutral density filters, and a Nikon Speedlight SB-600 when needed - all carried in trusty Lowepro and Think Tank bags. A very few, older images were taken on a Nikkormat FT2 - retired from service a number of years ago, having never quite recovered from the battering it received during an extended trip to the Karakoram.

Click here for more details of published work and photos.


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