Art director-turned-photographer – and former overall winner of Travel Photographer of the Year – Marsel van Oosten pre-visualises photographs before he takes them – and sometimes even before he leaves home.
Art director-turned-photographer – and former overall winner of Travel Photographer of the Year – Marsel van Oosten pre-visualises photographs before he takes them – and sometimes even before he leaves home.
When you first became involved in photography who or what inspired you then, and who or what inspires you now?
When I started getting serious with nature photography, I was like a sponge for knowledge so I tried to look at as many nature photography books as possible. The photographers that I liked the most back then were were Dutchman Frans Lanting and the American nature photographer Art Wolfe. I like Art’s work because he combines landscape photography and wildlife photography. I always wanted to do both myself so I really studied his work to learn as much as possible from him.
Simon is the Developer for Eye for the Light. He has worked in travel journalism and publishing for a decade, writing for Rough Guides, Frommer's and Bradt Guides, and is the youngest-ever chairman of the British Guild of Travel Writers.
