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Rudolf Abraham is an award-winning writer and photographer whose love of travel and remote places has taken him from the Balkans to eastern Turkey, Central Asia and Patagonia. He has written, illustrated or contributed to numerous books, guidebooks and articles on these areas - their mountains, landscape, history and architecture. During his travels he has trekked in the Karakoram, the Tien Shan, Ladakh, New Zealand’s Southern Alps, Patagonia, and the mountains of Iran and eastern Turkey. He lived in Croatia from 1999 to 2001, and has made numerous trips into the mountains of Croatia, Slovenia and Montenegro.
Rudolf studied fine arts, majoring in photography, and completed an MA in Islamic art and archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
He is the author of Walking in Croatia (2nd edition 2010), The Mountains of Montenegro (2007, winner 'best guidebook' in the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence, 2008) and a guide to Torres del Paine (2010), all published by Cicerone, and is currently working on guidebooks to the mountains of eastern Turkey and a new Croatia guide for National Geographic Traveler. Other recent commissions have included contributing to DK Eyewitness' The Road Less Travelled and updating the Bradt guide to Croatia. He is a regular contributor to hidden europe, BBC Countryfile, CNN Traveller and Wanderlust, as well as to Alamy and Photographers Direct, and also writes on Islamic art and architecture. He is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, the British Guild of Travel Writers and Writers and Photographers unLimited.
He lives in London.
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Travel writer and photographer:
http://www.rudolfabraham.co.uk
Stock photography:
http://photography.rudolfabraham.co.uk
Photographs can also be licensed through Photographers Direct and Alamy:
http://www.photographersdirect.com/rudolfabraham
http://www.photographersdirect.com/rudolfabrahamstock
http://www.alamy.com/stock-photography/44056BC6-4A79-42A7-979F-1FF626918107/Rudolf+Abraham.html
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| Travel writer and photographer. Available for written and photographic commissions, as well as editorial work and lectures.
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2009 - OWPG Awards for Excellence (Best Outdoor Feature): Velebit. A Mountain in Croatia
2008 - OWPG Awards for Excellence (Best Guidebook): The Mountains of Montenegro
Author/photographer:
Torres del Paine. Trekking in Chile's Premier National Park (Cicerone, 2010)
Walking in Croatia (2nd edition; Cicerone, 2010)
The Mountains of Montenegro (Cicerone, 2007)
In preparation:
Croatia (National Geographic Traveler, 2010)
Trekking in Eastern Turkey (Cicerone, 2011)
Contributing author/photographer:
Croatia. The Bradt Travel Guide (4th ed, Bradt, 2010)
(updates)
The Road Less Travelled (Dorling Kindersley, 2009)
(contributor)
The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Nasser D Khalili Collection (exhibition catalogue: IMA, Paris, 2009; Emirates Palace, Abu Dhabi, 2008; AGNSW, Sydney, 2007)
(contributing author, editing)
Islamic Art and Culture. A Visual History (Overlook Press, 2006)
(text contributions and research, photographs as credited)
The Timeline History of Islamic Art and Architecture (Worth Press, 2005)
(text contributions and research, photographs as credited)
Worcester - A History and Celebration (Ottakar’s, 2004)
(photographs as credited)
Arminius Vambery, Travels in Central Asia (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2003)
(introduction)
Robert Curzon, Armenia: A Year at Erzeroom and on the Frontiers of Russia, Turkey and Persia (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2003)
(introduction)
C.E. Yate, Northern Afghanistan (Cambridge Scholars Press, 2003)
(introduction)
Monuments and Memorials. Carvings and Tilework from the Islamic World (Nour Foundation, not yet published)
(contributor)
Recent articles:
'Istria' (CNN Traveller, November/December 2010)
'Montenegro' (OE, August 2010)
'Dubrovnik City Guide' (CNN Traveller, May/June 2010)
'Discover Northumberland in Winter' (BBC Countryfile, January 2010)
'Mt Caburn to Firle Beacon' (BBC Countryfile, January 2010)
'Travel Icon: Torres del Paine' (Wanderlust, November 2009)
'10 City Breaks for Winter - Zagreb' (CNN Traveller, November/December 2009)
'Epping Forest, Waltham Abbey & the River Lea' (BBC Countryfile, December 2009)
'The Long Man of Wilmington' (BBC Countryfile, September 2009)
'Zagreb's Literary Ghosts' (hidden europe, September 2009)
'Portfolio' (Outdoor Focus, Summer 2009)
'Durmitor and Boka Kotorska, Montenegro' (Wanderlust, June 2009)
'Adventures in Patagonia' (Silversea Cruises, June 2009)
'Jovici. One Hundred Years of Change in Ravni Kotari' (hidden europe, May 2009)
'Angouleme - murs peints' (hidden europe, January 2009)
'The Land of the Living Past. Edith Durham in Prokletije' (hidden europe, September 2008)
'Velebit, A Mountain in Croatia' (hidden europe, September 2008)
'Montenegro: Accursed Mountains, Enchanted Mountains'
(hidden europe, May 2008)
'Mughal Jewellery' (Canvas, March 2009)
'Islamic Metalwork' (Canvas, January 2009)
'Islamic Lacquer' (Canvas, November 2008)
'Pictorial Chronicles' (Canvas, September 2008)
Writing for the web:
Santiago City Guide (World Travel Guide, 2009 - updates)
'Country Pubs' (BBC Countryfile, September 2009)
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Walking, trekking, hiking, climbing, adventure travel
History, architecture (in particular Islamic) and archaeology
environmental and conservation issues food and wine
world music
Southeast Europe/the Balkans, in particular Croatia and Montenegro
Eastern Turkey, the Caucasus, Iran, Central Asia and the Himalaya
Patagonia (Chile/Argentina)
Spain
Australia and New Zealand
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