About
Raj Joshi
An adventure-travel photographer and expedition leader who has worked on every continent — from jungle and desert to the polar ice and the high Himalaya.
Raj doesn't shoot from a studio. The pictures are made in the field, on the move, and often a long way from the nearest road — on a glacier above base camp, upriver at first light, or waiting out the last minute of light on a desert dune. Leading expeditions and photographing them are, for him, the same job: get people safely to remarkable places, and bring back the frame that proves they were there.
The range is deliberate. Wildlife on its own terms; landscapes shot for the composition the moment demands; the people who make a place; and the expeditions themselves. What ties it together is a documentary honesty — real light, real places, and a refusal to crop a photograph down to something smaller than it was.
Raj also leads journeys with The Adventure Boutique, taking small groups to the places these photographs come from.
- Based
- United Kingdom · working worldwide
- Continents worked
- All seven
- Terrain
- Jungle · desert · polar · high mountain
- Also
- Expedition leader
Selected field work
- Everest region, Nepal High-altitude trekking & base-camp work
- Namib & Kalahari, Namibia Desert landscape and San communities
- Uganda Wildlife — savanna and waterways
- Bagan, Myanmar Temples, festivals and river journeys
- Sierra Leone Documentary and portrait work
- Mexico Pacific coast and landscape