One of my Cuban travel portraits will soon be exhibited in London as part of the London Photo Festival 'Womanhood' competition. I was delighted to be one of ten finalists chosen to be involved with the upcoming exhibition, the images are currently being printed and will be exhibited for six months on the London Photo Festival Fence in the grounds of Marble Hill House, Twickenham from 1st October. My selected image was of this beautiful Cuban lady I captured on a trip to Havana a few years ago:
Geraint Rowland is a photographer from Cardiff, Wales, UK. He specialises predominantly in travel based photography, capturing people around the World often in a candid manner. He likes to showcase the beauty which he believes can be found everywhere. He became interested in photography ten years ago and took a couple of introductory courses in Cardiff. He has exhibited his photography in Cardiff and London in the UK, and Lima in Peru. He has had over one hundred photographs published in newspapers and magazines. He licences his photographs via Getty images and sells large abstract images through a gallery in London. He has spent a large part of the last ten years travelling and living in other countries including: Peru, Senegal, India and Mexico. He is available for photographic work especially if there is travel involved!
The photograph in the 'Womanhood' exhibition was taken on a trip to Cuba three years ago. I spent two weeks in the Capital, Havana exploring the streets everyday and taking hundreds of images. On the last day I decided to take some portraits of the beautiful Cuban people. I took the portrait in natural light with a large depth of field using my favourite lens, a 50mm. I love the flowers in her hair, the classic Cuban cigar and the interest in her gaze. I highly recommend visiting Cuba, it is a photographer's dream. I won a competition for Wanderlust Magazine with another Cuban image taken on the same trip. The other great photographs to be exhibited can be viewed on the London Photo Festival’s Facebook page here.
More of my travel photography can be found on my website, Instagram, Facebook Page and my Flickr account. If you are interested in writing a guest travel or photography blog for my website please send me an email to discuss. Likewise if you are interested in purchasing any of my travel or abstract images, please send me an email: geraintrowlandphotography@gmail.com.