Award winning National Geographic Photographer Bob Madden will speak at the Tidewater Camera Club on Monday, May 2nd, 2016 from 7 to 9 PM in the Talbot County Community Center’s Wye Oak Room. During Bob’s presentation entitled “Prepping for Travel Photography” Bob will explain that preparing for your trip involves more than Googling your destination and taking along several extra batteries for your camera. In his talk, Bob will share valuable tips that he has garnered over a long career as an award-winning staff photographer for National Geographic Magazine.
As a staff photographer for National Geographic for over 15 years, Bob Madden produced the photographs for many magazine stories and several National Geographic books. Travels across all seven continents exposed him to an extraordinary diversity of cultures and customs, from the Yanomamo Indians in the jungles of Venezuela, to street life in Brooklyn, New York, to the ecology of the Chesapeake Bay, the area Bob calls home.
Bob’s experiences have equipped him to offer what he has learned to fellow photographers who subscribe to his domestic and international photo tours where he helps participants hone their photographic skills.
Bob has also been immersed in photography from another perspective: he served as Senior Assistant Editor and Director of Design at the National Geographic magazine and picture editor for National Geographic Kids magazine and National Geographic Books. He designs trade books such as Madagascar A World Out of Time, by Allison Joly and Frans Lanting (Aperture) and Sam Abell A Photographic Life (Rizzoli).
His long list of awards and credits include: Magazine Photographer of the Year (twice); College Photographer of the Year; and design awards from the Society of Publication Designers, The New York Art Directors Club, and Communication Arts.
A Midwesterner, Bob is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and he also studied photojournalism at the University of Missouri.
Founded in 1963, the Tidewater Camera Club strives to promote interest and participation in photography for all skill levels and ages. For more information, go to www.tidewatercameraclub.org.
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