Aldo Pavan is a journalist and freelance photographer, but describes himself a curious traveller. His main interest is in creating travel reportages of his travels on all five continents, in publishing books and working with magazines. Since 2003 he has been working on a series of photographic books about the rivers of the world, such as Ganges: Along Holy Waters and The Nile in 2006. I saw the latter last evening at the High Street Kensington Waterstone's, and it is really a beautiful book.
The next titles are The Yellow River, The Danube and The Mekong. Another project he is preparing is entitled The Routes of Man , a series of books dedicated to the great trade routes of the world. The first book, scheduled for 2008, will describe the Ancient Gold Route in Africa, connecting black Africa with the Mediterranean, through the Sahara.
A prolific photographer, Aldo has published about one hundred travel features compiled in America , Australia , China , the Middle East, South East Asia and Antarctica. He has also published a series of pocket travel guides entitled Venezia (Venice), Messico (Mexico), Santo Domingo , Corsica , Marocco (Morocco), Francia Sud Ovest (South West France) and Francia Occidentale (Western France). He is currently preparing a journalistic book on Burma for Feltrinelli Traveller, entitled Sui Sentieri dell'Oppio (On the Opium Trail).
His website is somewhat of a departure from the standard photographers' websites. His galleries are only available as downloadable PDFs, and I don't know why he chose that alternative instead of just showcasing his magnificent photographs either via regular HTML code or Flash. His PDF galleries are about 3-5 mb each, so they download very quickly...but I think he'd be better served to have plain standard galleries....or maybe I'm missing something.
I chose his work on the Omo Valley Tribes as I've photographed the same tribes. I also noticed he photographed the unusual ritual of jumping of the bulls; a topic on which I posted here on TTP.
A photographers' photographer, Aldo is recognized as one of a kind in Europe...and I hope the United States accords him the same recognition.
Aldo Pavan's website
