Come the Next Revolution

Posted on June 30, 2015 by ashappleton

You know that rising, panicky feeling you get when the penny suddenly drops: time is running out, the clock is ticking against you? Well that’s exactly how I felt, last year in December, watching Obama announce on TV that he was going to normalise US relations with Cuba. I knew then that I had to […]

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Travel Images: To Pay or not to Pay? Is that the Question?

Posted on January 14, 2014 by ashappleton

Back in November, I was so pleased to see my travel portrait of a little indigenous Panamanian girl “Hidden Smile” featured in the UK edition of Digital Camera magazine. This got me thinking about the story behind the shot and reopened the can of worms surrounding paying for travel images. After a hectic schedule in […]

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