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    This is my personal space for creative experimentation and sharing my original work, artistic collaborations, photographic inspirations and general adventures in picture making.
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    From Russia With Love

    Filed under Photo Reportage, Published Photography, Travel | 3 Comments

    There are many wonderful technological benefits to being a photographer in the Twenty-first Century, but none greater than the ability to easily connect and communicate with clients, both existing and potential, all around the world.  Developing these relationships, however, still requires personal effort, a little luck and some human kindness.


    Last year I was contacted by the Photo Editor at Condé Nast Traveller (Russia) and we ended up working together to illustrate a Cambodia story, 'АнГкор, еще анГкор!' (translated as 'Angkor, More Angkor') for the February 2012 issue of her magazine.  Following this collaboration, and despite having never met in person or even spoken on the phone, we have developed a long-distance, electronic friendship.


    So when she reached out again recently -- this time seeking photography for an upcoming CNT (Russia) feature about Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- I was only too happy to oblige.


    I used to live in Saigon in the late 1990s and have returned to Vietnam's commercial capital numerous times over the past dozen years to witness and document the hyper-frenetic, ever-changing city.  I, therefore, have a deep reservoir of imagery from Vietnam to draw upon.

    The result of my most recent collaboration with Condé Nast Traveller (Russia) is the feature 'НА СУП ФО к дядюшке Хо' (roughly translated as 'Go To Uncle Ho for Pho') which appears across a dozen pages in the November 2012 issue.


    Recalling from our previous work together that I had a large library of stock imagery from Cambodia -- and in the spirit of both friendship and partnership -- my CNT (Russia) contact kindly introduced me to the Photo Editor at GQ (Russia) whom she knew to be searching for photographs to illustrate a story about Cambodia's capital city, Phnom Penh, for her magazine.


    'БУДДА-БАР' (meaning 'Buddha Bar'), featuring a handful of my Phnom Penh photographs, appeared in the October 2012 edition of GQ (Russia).


    Neither of these connections would ever have been made without modern technology.  But I am also acutely aware that neither of these relationships would ever have flourished without both a personal touch and a kind gesture.  And isn't that what partnership is all about?


    See more of my work with Condé Nast's international magazines, VOGUE (China) and Condé Nast Traveller (India).



  • 3 Comments on From Russia With Love

    1. Thank you Scott ….


      Comment by Ida Wuryanti — November 11, 2012 @ 8:46 PM

    2. You are so kind, Ida. Thank you very much for all your kind words and generous support. You might be my biggest fan!! 🙂


      Comment by Scott — November 11, 2012 @ 7:00 PM

    3. Awesome photos Scott, love it very much …. ☺


      Comment by Ida Wuryanti — November 11, 2012 @ 6:56 PM

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