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In these times of crisis, photo acquisition budgets have been cut. Art directors and photo editors often cannot afford to send a photographer to cover stories in Spain on gastronomy, wine, popular culture and tourist sights, but that doesn’t mean that you can’t have access to top quality, original photographs of Spain, Spanish travel, Spanish gastronomy, Spanish wine and many, many other subjects covering a broad range of activities (see samples below). And, since I travel in Spain as many as eight times each year, an assignment often does not require re-imbursement for air travel.
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Based in New York's Hudson River Valley, I am Gerry Dawes, an award-winning writer-photographer, who has been traveling or living in Spain for forty years. I have thousands of high quality digital photographs and a library of thousands of transparencies going back more than two decades on a multitude of Spanish subjects. I have published hundreds, if not thousands, of photographs in such publications as Food Arts, The Wine Spectator, The Wine News, The Wine Enthusiast, Santé, Decanter, Saveur and The New York Times. I have had had cover and full-page shots for The Wine Spectator, Wine Enthusiast and Wine News and I have photographs in several books. Numerous photographs of mine can be see with my articles on this blog, on Verema.com and on the new Culinary Institute of America-Greystone website dedicated to Spain.My stock includes thousands of photographs of Spain, taken on an average of seven trips per year to Spain over the past decade.
Available subjects include (see slide shows below for samples of my work):
Spanish cocina de vanguardia chefs (Ferran Adri , Arzak, Roca, Dacosta and scores of others), their restaurants and hundreds of dishes.
Spanish traditional cuisine chefs, restaurateurs, restaurants, restaurant façades and dishes (roast suckling lamb, pig, shellfish, rich dishes, vegetable dishes, etc.)
Market photos from Madrid, Barcelona’s La Boqueria, San Sebastián’s La Bretxa, Valencia’s Mercat Central, Mercado de Jerez and others; fish markets; farmer’s markets; gourmet shops; and food producers.
Spanish products such as olive oil (and production); hundreds of artisan cheeses (cheesemaking operations and animals that provide the milk); rice, paprika and saffron.
Wine, wineries and vineyards from almost every denominación de origen, many of which are isolated or little-known; Spanish wine personalities, star winemakers and little-known winemakers; closeups of wine glasses.
Christian and Moorish Castles, ancient synagogues, Roman ruins, cathedrals and village churches, monuments, museums, statues, works of art, train stations, airports.
Landscapes: mountains, plains and seacoast.
Street photography, including street performers (hundreds of human statues and musicians.)
If you don’t see it in this general listing, ask, chances are Dawes's archives may have what you are looking for to illustrate your articles and advertisements.
Dawes is also available for assignments and the fact that he is so often in Spain–leading tours, attending and speaking at conferences or just traveling and taking photographs–can mean that the customer may not have the expense of my airfare.
Slide shows of sample photographs:
(Note to potential publishers: These photographs represent only a cross-section of my photographs of Spain, drawn from my large archives of digitals and from thousands of transparencies taken over many years. No photographs are to be reproduced or used without payment, photographer's copyright credit and explicit written consent from the photographer.)
Spain: General
Spanish Gastronomy: Chefs, Restaurants, Dishes, Products
Spanish rice dishes
Spanish wine
Street Performers in Spain
All photographs taken with Canon cameras and Tokina 12-24mm f4, Sigma 17-70mm f2.8-4.5, Canon 50mm f1.4, Canon 50mm Macro f2.5 and Canon 70-200mm f4 'L' lenses.
About Gerry Dawes
". . . Gerry Dawes, the gastronomy/travel writer-photographer known for good reasons in wine and periodical circles as ‘Mr. Spain." An inexhaustible fund of knowledge on his favorite subject . . . " - - Michael & Ariane Batterberry, Publishers of Food Arts
Spanish National Gastronomy Prize: 2003 Marques de Busianos Award from the Spanish Academy of Gastronomia y La Cofradia de la Buena Mesa for activities (writing, photography, lectures) on behalf of Spanish gastronomy and wines.
Gerry Dawes was born in Alto Pass, Illinois (pop. 300) and lived in Spain for eight years in sherry country (Cádiz), in Sevilla, and in Mijas (Malaga) and has been traveling there for forty years. He represented the late American artist-matador John Fulton in Sevilla and Marbella; apprenticed under Robert Vavra, photographer of James Michener's Iberia; ran The Dawes Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Mijas, and studied Spain's language, history, and culture at the University of Sevilla (in the former Fábrica de Tabaco--made famous as the setting of the opera Carmen). Dawes has a B.A. in Spanish and Creative Writing from State University of New York (SUNY).
An avid aficionado of Spanish fiestas and a photographer, Dawes traveled extensively in Spain during the eight years he lived there, putting muchos kilómetros on Rocinante, his Volkswagen sedan. He amassed thousands of color transparencies and a wealth of knowledge about the country, its wine and food, customs and culture. Since that time, he has returned to Spain nearly 100 times on gastronomy, wine and photography missions. He has also led nearly a dozen customized culinary and wine tours to Spain.
Spanish National Gastronomy Prize: 2003 Marques de Busianos Award from the Spanish Academy of Gastronomia y La Cofradia de la Buena Mesa for activities (writing, photography, lectures) on behalf of Spanish gastronomy and wines.
Gerry Dawes was born in Alto Pass, Illinois (pop. 300) and lived in Spain for eight years in sherry country (Cádiz), in Sevilla, and in Mijas (Malaga) and has been traveling there for forty years. He represented the late American artist-matador John Fulton in Sevilla and Marbella; apprenticed under Robert Vavra, photographer of James Michener's Iberia; ran The Dawes Gallery, a contemporary art gallery in Mijas, and studied Spain's language, history, and culture at the University of Sevilla (in the former Fábrica de Tabaco--made famous as the setting of the opera Carmen). Dawes has a B.A. in Spanish and Creative Writing from State University of New York (SUNY).
An avid aficionado of Spanish fiestas and a photographer, Dawes traveled extensively in Spain during the eight years he lived there, putting muchos kilómetros on Rocinante, his Volkswagen sedan. He amassed thousands of color transparencies and a wealth of knowledge about the country, its wine and food, customs and culture. Since that time, he has returned to Spain nearly 100 times on gastronomy, wine and photography missions. He has also led nearly a dozen customized culinary and wine tours to Spain.
Mr. Dawes is currently working on a reality television
series on wine, gastronomy, culture and travel in Spain.
(Video currently unavailable to do a feeder site failure, back by Feb. 3)
Experience Spain With Gerry Dawes: Culinary Trips to Spain & Travel Consulting on Spain
Gerry Dawes can be reached at gerrydawes@aol.com; cell phone: 914-414-6982
Alternate e-mail (use only if your e-mail to AOL is rejected): gerrydawes@hotmail.com
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