How to Land a Dream Assignment as a Travel Photographer

Do you want to work as a travel photographer? Imagine for a moment, your dream assignment as a photographer. Can you see yourself photographing an erupting volcano for National Geographic or capturing beach scenes for an island resort?   Perhaps your dream assignment as a travel photographer is an editorial shoot covering some of the most stylish hotels or documenting a remote village community and their daily life.   Imagining your dream assignment or campaign as a travel photographer, helps to build a path towards making it a reality.     You have a camera, you can develop your own creative approach, work on your skills and actually make it happen – the only thing between you and that dream assignment is experience, connections and the ability to land the job.   Working on an approach to find your place in the travel industry as a photographer is an exciting step, even if it can feel daunting at times. Try to remove the thoughts of ‘I’m not good enough’, ‘I don’t have the right gear’, or ‘there are already too many travel photographers’. If any of those thoughts are true, they can be fixed or managed to still make room...
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