Jon Davison TRAVEL PHOTOGRAPHER

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Lonely Planet & Berlitz

Jon has been a travel photographer now for well over 20 years.
In that time he has produced work for many leading travel
publishers worldwide, including books, magazine articles,
CD Roms, brochures etc.

Primarily he produces work for the US, New Jersey based travel
publishers Berlitz (who also operate the worlds most extensive
language school system). Titles that he has produced work
on an exclusive basis are;

Berlitz Pocket guide updates: Crete, Cyprus, Amsterdam,
London, Vienna, Berlin, Rome, venice, Florence, Jamaica,
Copenhagen, Stockholm, Ibiza & Formenterra, Mallorca &
Menorca, Bali & Lombok, Australia, New Zealand, Sydney,
New York, Thailand.

Titles for 2001: Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand,
Australia

New Berlitz Pocket guides: New Orleans, Provence, Milan
& the Italian Lakes, Boston.

Berlitz Discovery Guides: Tuscany, Scandinavia, Greece,
New England.

Titles for AA Publishing 2003: Australia (WA & NT)


Berlitz Australia, 256 pages.

Lonely Planet Publications

Australian based Lonely Planet Publications represent
his travel image collection, so many covers of their great
books now carry his work such as. Italy, Greece, Croatia,
Florence, Vienna and many more


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Lonely Planet Travel Guides

Other publishers: Mexico's Yucatan, Tunisia, Nautical, Sunsets,
Toronto, Miiami, Florida, UK. He wrote, designed and photographed the Berlitz/Nikon guide to Travel Photography. This was designed
to compliment the existing Berlitz series of pocket guides.
We sold 12'000 in the UK and 5'000 in the US.

Berlitz Discovery Guides

Berlitz Pocket Guides

On location

He usually travels alone and stays up to a month on
location. For instance, cities like Berlin, Rome or
New Orleans required say a 10 to 14 day stint,
whilst the Discovery guides are anything from a
month to two months on location.

Even with a shoot list in hand, he often just wanders
for hours to get the feel of the location without
making any images. He then goes back again later
and sets about recording it.

He likes heading off and having little or no idea where
he is going, getting lost and seeing where fate
or the powers that be will take him. He loves the
visual bonuses that happen when he travels like this.

Hardware

His photographic equipment is pretty spartan.

He carries a Nikon D100 digital camera, with two
lenses, an 80 - 300mm 2.8 Nikon zoom and a 20mm 3.5 lens, an SB25 flash on an external cable and
that is a bout it.

On location he uses an Apple Mac iBook G4
laptop (1.6Mhz), plus a USB card reader.

He does not use a camera bag outside of the hotel, only for transit from the airport etc. Instead he uses a beaten up old backpack that he bought in East 42nd street during his NYC commission. It is one of those items that just feels right and he can't seem to part with it.

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Journey to Yaxchilan

Click the link for my story on a canoe journey to
Mexicos Yaxchilan ruins This was published
a number of times in various magazines
and papers. This is my account of a typical travel
adventure journey where things are sometimes
not as they would seem to be. We took a canoe
ride down th emighty Usumacinta river from
near Palenque to the lost city of Yaxchilan on
the border of Guatemala.

To my mind it sums up the adventure of being a
travel photographer.


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This is in Acrobat PDF format. (321k download)
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Book Developing/Packaging

Jon also produces book concepts for publishers
in association with his writer colleague Tom
Allibone. Two ofthese productions can be viewed
by clicking these links.

Australian Submarines

100 years of Australian Aviation

Oxford 'Images &
Recollections'
Commission from
Blackwells publishers,
Oxford,
Concept, design,
package & images.


Click the link for my
Publishing History