A century and a half ago photographers would spend years preparing expeditions to our remote destinations. We at Camera Odysseys are pleased to be able to visit them at will. That’s particularly exciting because, even though the trips are easier, our destinations are still much the same as they were when legendary pioneers of travel photography like Francis Firth, Samuel Bourne, Linnaeus Tripe and William Young visited them.
Bruce Byers on the streets of NYC
After decades of traveling the world...
Bruce Byers: Head photographer
Travel like a journalist, live like a native, shoot like a professional
...documenting cultures, societies, and individuals, making friends, founding Camera Voyages and taking advantage of extraordinary advances in photography, I decided to up the ante.
Camera Voyages was my first success teaching semi-pro and advanced amateur photographers to expand their comfort zones, and introducing them to my favorite adventures in foreign countries. Camera Odysseys goes a step further. My guides and I are choosing really exciting journeys where we will, for parts of the trips, offer you a chance to embed with real heroes: groups of doctors, aid workers, well-known local artists and performers, as well as professional photographers, and experienced guides. We’ll gain insights into countries that no mere visitor could expect to see, and we’ll be part photographer, part adventurer and part angel, helping to fund medical and aid missions, where we’ll have a lasting positive effect on each country we visit.
My previous trips at Camera Voyages were something to impress your friends on Instagram. Whereas, my Camera Odysseys trips are designed to make sure you’ll never see, or photograph, the world quite the same way again. I’m very excited about our upcoming trips, and I think you will be as well.
Bruce has a long history of giving back to Non-profits. Join us on our up-coming trips to document what great doctors are doing to change children's lives.
Also, at Camera Odysseys, we want to know where you’d like to go and what you’d like to photograph. Before we can expand your comfort zone, I have to expand mine. I’d be happy and excited to consider your suggestions.
HIMANSHU PANDYA: Photographer, Traveler
Himanshu Pandya is an award winning automotive, lifestyle and tourism photographer with over two decades of experience in editorial, advertorial and commercial projects. From Borneo to BMWs, Maseratis to Masai Mara, his lens have captured some of the most splendid scenes and vivid colours that our world has to offer.
Himanshu's inspiration is his own itinerant childhood. Never confined to one place, he formed his earliest impressions of the world as much from tan fields and idyllic landscapes as from the hustle of cities and the aspirations of small towns. It trained him to sit back, to reject the entitlement involved in framing, in capturing, in delivering a point of view. He is more interested to see, to bear witness to the rhythm and soul of what is around him, to listen with his lens to the conspiracies of a scene as it weaves a singular moment.
When not behind his Lens, Himanshu can be found sipping green tea from his Nungbi black stone & clay cup. He is based out of New York and Mumbai.