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 or contributed to 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 using the contact form provided, as well as through Alamy or Photographers Direct.
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 remains a frequent visitor 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 (2004) and The Mountains of Montenegro (2007, winner 'best guidebook' in the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence, 2008), both published by Cicerone Press, and is currently working on guidebooks to the mountains of eastern Turkey and Patagonian Chile, as well as a new edition of the Croatia guide. 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 and Wanderlust, and also writes on Islamic art and architecture. He is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, the British Guild of Travel Writers and Writers and Photographers unLimited, is a member of the editorial staff of the Khalili Collection (one of the largest private collections of Islamic art in the world), and has contributed introductions to books on Central Asia, Armenia and Afghanistan.
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!
Rio Ascensio, Torres del Paine National Park, Patagonia, Chile (Nikon D300, Nikkor 12-24mm f/4G ED-IF DX, ND grad filter, 2 stops hard edge)
Evening light on Cerro Torre (3102m) and Laguna Torre, Los Glaciares National Park, Patagonia, Argentina (Nikon D200, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8)
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 Fisheye-Nikkor 10.5mm f/2.8G ED DX, Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 AIS, Nikkor 28mm f/2 AI, Nikkor 35mm f/1.4 AIS, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 AIS, 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 lightweight 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.
Shanti Stupa, Leh, Ladakh (Nikon FM2n, Nikkor 20mm f/2.8)
Icicles and stream, Pont de la Baladosa, Vall d'Incles, Andorra (Nikon D200, Micro-Nikkor 105mm f/4)
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