This is the first of a series of interviews with photographers that have either won or placed highly in the Travel Photographer of the Year photography competition. I recommend you check out their website and also their online magazine Travel Shooters, aimed at anyone interested in travel photography or photojournalism.

When I saw Richard Wainwright’s Counting the Cost of Gold story on the BBC website, I was curious to find out more about the photographer and his trip to the Ituri District of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Mountaineer, film maker and adventurer Harry Kikstra is much more than just an accomplished travel photographer. I invited him to take part in an interview.

Netherlands based photographer Carmen Gonzalez has a beautiful body of work on display on Flickr, and recently held an exhibition in the town of Hoogeveen.

I first discovered Sol Lang’s erotic photography on Flickr and a visit to his website confirmed that he’s a very busy photographer. He exhibits, self-publishes books and calendars and sells prints on Imagekind. I asked him about some of these things. His answers will surprise you.

I came across Adam Blenford’s blog StampCollector and I was immediately intrigued by his posts about Argentina…

Gavin Gough must have the perfect life. He spent a year travelling around the world and found that he liked taking photos so much he decided to become a professional travel photographer…

Not only did he come up with the concept and design of the Fine Art Photoblog, but he also runs his own successful (and very interesting) photography blog…

Ever fancied spending a year travelling in some of the world’s remotest countries? That’s what photojournalist Timothy Allen did when he took a year off to explore remote places in the Himlaya…

When I saw Mike Rinnan’s website I knew that I wanted to ask him some questions about stock and travel photography…