Meet the Photographers
Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever… It remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.”- Aaron Siskind
David Lazar
is our senior photographer and a multi-major award winner (including the Smithsonian award for travel photography) currently focusing on Asia. He’s a National Geographic contributor of whom Practical Photography has proclaimed, “…one the world’s foremost travel photographers.” More importantly for our purposes, he’s also one of the best photo tour leaders you’ll ever meet, with a fun and engaging style combined with great generosity of spirit.
Sina Falker
is a major award winning travel photographer and instructor. While she photographs all over the world, Sina’s primary passion is Latin America, and most especially Mexico. She speaks fluent Spanish, English, and German. She always goes the extra mile for her guests and is one the hardest working photo tour leaders in the business. Warning: Her passion for travel photography is contagious!
Diep Van
joined Luminous Journeys in 2015, lending his logistical expertise to the design of Luminous Journeys Vietnam Photo Tour Spectacular, which runs every June. Since then, he has developed from a hobbyist into an award winning professional photographer and drone instructor. In addition to our June trip, Diep also leads private LJ Vietnam photo tour experiences, where the client chooses their own travel dates.
Francis Ansing
is a brilliant landscape photographer and highly sought out instructor. He may be based Tokyo, but he doesn’t stay put for long! Francis goes all over the world seeking out new and rugged landscapes, and the more rugged the better. He thinks nothing of spending freezing cold nights in a tent or taking long treks to discover the undiscovered and bring it on home.
Khánh Phan
(born Phan Thị Khánh, 1985) is Luminous Journey’s newest addition to our team of accomplished native photographers. She is internationally recognized contemporary Vietnamese photographer celebrated for her vivid documentation of her homeland's culture, traditional craft villages, and everyday labor. Based in Ho Chi Minh City, she has gained global acclaim for her unique visual style, which includes drone perspectives to reveal sweeping geometric patterns in rural landscapes.
Swarup Chatterjee
is an award winning photographer and Canon brand ambassador based in Mumbai, India. He came to photography as an already accomplished painter, and it’s this blending of two visions that has created his distinct, evocative style. Swarup’s true passion for photography and gregarious nature make him an ideal and inspirational photo tour leader.
Kimleng Sang
is the most sought after photography tour leader in Cambodia, where he was born and raised. His English is good and his heart is true. Trust us when we tell you that traveling and shooting with Leng is an enriching cultural and photographic experience never to be forgotten.
Rarindra Prakarsa
has described himself as a “surreal life” photographer. His famous use of natural and unnatural light accounts for most of the “surreal” in his work, which he later perfects in Photoshop. Although he shoots beautifully in other styles, it’s the surreal life style that caught the eye of the photographic world & brought him international acclaim.
