About

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

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, illustrated or contributed to numerous books, guidebooks and articles on these areas - from trekking in remote mountains and national parks, to historic architecture, culture and reportage - and supplies high quality stock images to editorial clients through his photography website as well as through Photographers Direct and Alamy. He is available for written and photographic commissions, lectures and editing.

Rudolf has travelled extensively and repeatedly in southeast Europe, eastern Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran and Central Asia, including several extended overland trips through these areas in the late 1990s. 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, has made numerous trips into the mountains of Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro, and continues to make several visits a year to Croatia. He 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, as well as a Croatia guide for National Geographic Traveler. He is currently working on guidebooks to the mountains of eastern Turkey, Arctic Norway and long distance trails in Northumberland. Other recent commissions have included contributing to DK Eyewitness' Ultimate Food Journeys and The Road Less Travelled and updating the Bradt guide to Croatia. He writes for CNN Traveller, hidden europe, Discover Britain (formerly Heritage), France, OE, Real Travel, Vertu Select, BBC Countryfile and Wanderlust, and licenses stock images through his own website as well as Alamy and Photographers Direct. 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!

Old fishing boats, Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile (Nikon D300, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4)

Early morning light on Cerro Torre (3102m) and Laguna Torre, Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina (Nikon D200, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4)

Equipment

For the record, all my photos are taken using Nikon digital (D700, D300 and D200; image size 5000+ pixels long edge @ 300ppi) and, once upon a time, film (FM2n, with Fuji Velvia) SLR bodies, and Nikkor lenses (14-24mm f/2.8, 17-35mm f/2.8, 12-24mm f/4 DX, 16mm f/3.5 AIS fisheye, 10.5mm f/2.8 DX fisheye, 35mm f/1.4 AIS, 50mm f/1.2 AIS, 50mm f/1.8 AIS, 50mm f/1.4G, 60mm f/2.8G macro, 105mm f/2 DC, 105mm f/4 AIS macro, 180mm f/2.8 ED AIS, 70-200mm f/2.8G VR… and a few other Nikkors…). Add to this a Gitzo carbon fibre tripod with Acratech ball head and RRS plates, Singh-Ray circular polarizers and graduated neutral density filters, and a couple of Nikon Speedlights (SB-600 & SB-700) when needed - all carried in trusty Think Tank bags. A very few, older images were taken on a Nikkormat FT2 - retired from service a good number of years ago, having never quite recovered from the battering it received during an extended trip to the Karakoram.

Shanti Stupa, Leh, Ladakh (Nikon FM2n, Nikkor 20mm f/2.8)

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