There's nothing at all anyone can say to convince me
that there's anything nice about anything to do with winter, i mean really,
It's dark when you wake up in the morning, it's dark when you go to bed.
It's damp, it's cold and it's miserable.
There is nothing that anyone can say to convince me
that log fires and bowls of water and soup are nice.
I mean really, look at it.
Wouldn't it be a bit more exciting
to go somewhere nice and hot possibly exotic?
Wouldn't it be awesome to photograph the magnificent of anchor what
the three thousand-plus stoopers of the gan
or the culture and heritage of malacer and pernam
well in the UK right now
is a man who contacted me a couple weeks ago
he's involved with aperture Asia, they love the training films that i'm making
and the interaction with you guys and they wanna know if
we'd like to be involved. So let's go and see if we can find him. I'm glad im of to
somewhere exotic it's
absolutely freezing.
This is Simon Taplin, Hey. From aperture asia, who. Cup of tea?
Your'e of your chum, why would you wanna come to a cold miserable place like this?
Well I don't know, that's why i just can't wait to go back on the flight and go shoot
some where nice and exotic. So erm, I can't wait and erm look forward to
you coming out and experiencing these wonderful locations.
I'm really looking forward to it and right now, this is just a conversation between
Simon and I, we don't know how it's gonna work we don't know where it's gonna go yet
but it should be really exciting and there's something really exciting for me about
aperture Asia
and this is a social responsibility thing, so tell us about your
responsibility and how you're putting stuff back into the community?
Okay well I've been living and working in Asia for about ten years
and a few years back i was exploring about doing overseas workshops
and it was the impact of tourism
which which really which really shocked me, I mean
cambodia's just getting back on its feet after decades of genocide
and I could see busloads of tourists coming in just going to see these
wonderful temples and
and not giving anything back that's just silly so
much poverty still in cambodia still so many
orphans, the land mine victims and it's just not
filtering back it just wasn't right is just something needed to
be done
and I've always wanted to do something socially
and I just realized how the power of photography
to change that it's not like we're going over there to teach people to become
photographers but we are running training workshops and
it exposes talents within these children
which completely changes their lives, it gives them a purpose in life. Absolutely.
So I mean what you don't know about Simon possibly is that he has been working for
people like
the call this picture agency for vision photography, you've been doing this
very high end work
for many many years out in Singapore haven't you? That's right, all over asia.
and so you're kinda like not just coming into this as a bleeding-heart you're
coming into this
as a working top-end commercial photographer
who's setting up photo workshops and tours and putting something back into the
local community that you love and I think that
is absolutely awesome and so so important how cool that would
be to take on hings that you love and you think are inspiring and now you're
putting in a bit good back in to the world at the same time, yeah precisely
It's really exciting and er, it's very rewarding
and people that we've had on our tours have actively been
involved and are coming back and helping out
and we're actually creating a community out there and er, it's
beautiful, it really is.
Absolutely awesome, so i mean you've run 3 or 4 photo workshops
recently already. Er Cambodia which we love, er we love all of them but
i'm particularly passionate about Cambodia because
the diversity it offers, also erm
Burma or Myanmar now its its finest its
living hasn't changed in centuries and again this
beautiful temples in baggan and lake
inlay that the largest pagoda in southeast asia the Shwedagon Pagoda
the stun locations are just mind blowing, it's just a photographer's dream
for, travel photography anyone that's passionate about photography
its, it's mind blowing and I think it's absolutely awesome because aperture Asia
is growing, it's something which it's snowballing and an exponentially
expanding
and i mean i'm delighted that you've invited myself, well
we just love the way you simply explain matters
on tangible elements, it's exactly what we're about and we we just love the way you
come across on-camera you make people feel at home and really want to learn
and
passionate about what you're doing. I mean it's great, and i'm completely excited because
it was an email out of the blue
and mike invited me down to his nice beach hut and said come and shoot in Mudeford
he said he'd had enough of it i'm off.
he's a lying git, we just thought it'd be a cool
place to do this, how
very British.
so guys right now this is just a conversation between Simon and I, we only met
just over a week ago we kinda get on well, we wanna work together, and we'd love you
guys to be involved. Please don't send emails sending yes, but we look like to know if you
we would like to know if you'd be interested in coming on some workshops in
southeast asia
looking at some amazing places whilst doing a bit of beauty in the world
a the same time. So click few likes on this video,
maybe leave a few comment's if you'd like to be er part of that,
and watch this space.
watch this space and we'd love to have you out in south east Asia
If you're passionate about photography, passionate for travel
it's perfect and coloring food experience as well
it's there's another factor that was wonderful
He'll talk your ear of about it for days, but he is right,
Let's look forward to it, have you made a brew?
I have but it's gone cold already,
I still think you look like captain cur
Oh deary me.
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