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Below is a list of the photographers who will be leading this trip. Both have many years of experience as photographers and adventure travelers in Mustang and other remote areas of the world.
Wilbur Norman is a Santa Fe writer and photographer who studied social anthropology and has owned rare book and tribal art galleries. His first camera was his father's bakelite 120/220 Ansco Panda. He has ‘upgraded’ many times to where he now feels somewhat competent to handle his current image-making tools: the Leica M10, Leica M246 Monochrom, and several of the Fuji X-cameras; kit chosen for the beautiful rendering produced by their companion lenses. He is quite partial to black and white whether on film or on digital, except in the tropics, and in commerce, where color is (usually!) king.
Wilbur has led tours for photographers on three continents. His work may be viewed here and has been exhibited in Santa Fe, NM, USA; Havana, Cuba; The Louvre Museum in Paris; the Leica Users Group 2014 Yearbook; LFI (Leica Foto International magazine), etc.
Born in Papua New Guinea, Lesley Martin's father was an engineer and she grew up learning Tok Pisin (the creole-English spoken as a lingua franca) and learning to fly light aircraft (hundreds of hours) and scuba dive the many reefs and sunken WWII craft fringing the country. Knowing the country intimately, she has led many trips to many places and festivals in PNG.
Our yacht captain, Craig de Wit, has lived most of his life in PNG, with a father from Holland and a mother from Scotland. They moved to PNG in 1954 and settled there having 6 children. Craig’s father was a Merchant Marine Engineer, so Craig grew up on ships and boats and consequently got into boat charters in Papua New Guinea from a young age with his own business. Captain, Dive Instructor and Explorer have led him on many adventures (a survivor of not one but two shark attacks being some of those more risky adventures!) These days Craig is involved in conservation which includes the culture of PNG and leads high net worth individuals on tours through PNG on their own superyachts. From time to time Craig takes private groups on his own yacht Golden Dawn on what he calls Specialized Expeditions.
Stay Inspired!
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