New Member Shout-Outs: August 2016 Edition

Each month at PhotoShelter we love taking time to check out our new members’ work. These are just a few that caught our eye, and we hope you’ll be as inspired as we were.

featured image: © David Robbins

 

David Robbins

Name: David Robbins
PhotoShelter template: Horizon
Member since: July 29, 2016
Location: Seattle, WA
Specialty and background: David is a Seattle based editorial photographer, specializing in projects concerning indigenous cultures, adventure travel and ecotourism. He has worked on assignment throughout the world for many major U.S. and European magazines. He has also worked as a lead guide and photography instructor for National Geographic Expeditions group tours in Bhutan and Tibet. David is the Founder and Director of Photo Nomad Ventures, an adventure travel consulting service specializing in high end custom itinerary design for private tours in Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal and India.

 

Tarynn Liv Parker

Name: Tarynn Liv Parker
PhotoShelter template: Horizon
Member since: August 12, 2016
Location: British Columbia, Canada
Specialty and background: Very much a product of the Okanagan terroir, Tarynn Liv Parker was born and bred in the Okanagan. Although she spent a decade abroad living in New York, Paris, Hong Kong, Shanghai and Vancouver—wearing the hats of yoga teacher, designer and photographer—she has always returned home to the Okanagan Valley in British Columbia, Canada where she now resides in a lakefront cottage on Okanagan Lake in Summerland, BC.

Tarynn has been a photographer and graphic designer for nearly 20 years. Of her recent accomplishments, some are best encapsulated in her British Columbia publication called The Field Guide, a website that journals on life in the region through photography and writing. She has written, designed and supplied photography for two books, “Okanagan, A Celebration Of The Canadian Wine Region” and “The Spirit Of The El”, a history and lifestyle book chronicling one of British Columbia’s most storied heritage properties, The Hotel Eldorado, in Kelowna, BC.

Her photography and creative pursuits are by no means limited to the culinary world but have maintained a strong focus there, apparent in her own training as a certified sommelier and through the study of holistic nutrition and deep interest in cultural heritage food ways of the world.

Tarynn’s life long practice of yoga and her study of the esoteric arts and sciences through eastern and new age perspectives are intrinsic, they are ‘the filters on the lens’ for Tarynn’s way of perceiving her photographic interpretations of life.

 

Zhu Qincay

Name: Zhu Qincay
PhotoShelter template: Element
Member since: July 24, 2016
Location: West Sumatra, Indonesia
Specialty and background: Zhu was born in Kerinci as Zulkifli Qincay. Zhu is taken from the first letters of his name and Qincay refers to the land of his birth. He works as an Independent Documentary Photographer, and is currently based in Sumatra, Indonesia, and available for photography assignments.

 

 

Stefania Prandi

Name: Stefania Prandi
PhotoShelter template: Sonnet
Member since: August 1, 2016
Location: Milan, Italy
Specialty and background: Stefania began working as a professional photojournalist in 2015. In 2016, her photos have been published by Al Jazeera, El País, Open Society Foundations, the Swiss magazine Azione, Elle Italy and Pagina99. For her photojournalist project Tomatoes Women, she received an honorable mention from the Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA), as well as named as one of the finalists for the LuganoPhotoDays festival. Since 2006, she has been working as a professional journalist for newspapers, magazines and radio. In the course of her journalist experiences, in the newsroom until 2010 and as a freelancer until now, she has covered gender, social and environmental topics, as well as foreign affairs. Stefania has reported from places such as Ethiopia, Albania, India, Greece, Portugal, and Italy, for both national and international publications. These publications include Elle Italy, Elle Hungary, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, the Swiss magazine Azione, the Swiss magazine Il Corriere del Ticino, the Italian newspapers Il Fatto Quotidiano, La Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore and L’Unità, the magazines Terre di Mezzo and Altreconomia, and the press agency Redattore Sociale.

 

Briana Diamond

Name: Briana Diamond
PhotoShelter template: Horizon
Member since: July 25, 2016
Specialty and background: Briana finds her creativity through the colors and motion of the sea. The feeling of looking at what she captured in the back of her camera makes the whole experience that much richer. Whether it’s going on a road trip or stepping out of her backyard, she enjoys the energy of the ocean and surfers that surround her. At the end of the day, Briana begins to gaze out at the magical ocean with a realization of how truly blessed she is for doing what she loves and sharing her adventures through photographs.

 

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