Picture yourself here. Photo: nattu

We told you we had big plans!

Last month, when we announced the creation of the Matador Flickr pool (which, by the way, now has more than 80 members and more than 700 incredible photos!), we alluded to some big plans we’d soon be unveiling for photographers.

[Insert virtual drumroll here.]

Matador U, Matador’s travel writing school, will be expanding its course offerings in the first quarter of 2010 with the launch of a travel photography course.

Working in collaboration with some of the world’s best known travel photographers, the course has been developed by our in-house editors and professional travel photographers Lola Akinmade and Paul Sullivan. Between them, Lola and Paul have had their photography featured in Vogue, CITY Magazine, and Time Out and Hedonist’s guide book series, among others.

More details about the course will be announced here as the launch date nears. In the meantime, we invite you to download our FREE report, 15 Publications That Pay for Travel Photography to get you excited about the program.

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Community Connection:

We’re always interested in featuring Matador members’ exceptional photos in our photo essays. If you’d like to see your photos published on Matador Trips, please contact Trips’ editors, Hal Amen and Carlo Alcos: hal@matadornetwork.com and carlo@matadornetwork.com.

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About The Author

Julie Schwietert

Julie Schwietert Collazo is a writer, editor, researcher, and translator currently in New York, formerly of Mexico City and San Juan. She is Matador's managing editor and is the lead faculty member of MatadorU's travel writing program.

  • http://angelicwildboy.com Nate maingard

    woweeee! I’ve only just discovered this gorgeous website and already I can feel myself falling in Love with everything you all are up to:)
    Had added your travel writing course to my list of lessons to learn and have just appended ‘and the photography course’ onto that list!
    Thank you for your sterling work!

    • http://collazoprojects.com/ Julie Schwietert

      Welcome, Nate! Look forward to getting to know you. If you ever have any questions about Matador, feel free to drop me a line at julie@matadornetwork.com

  • http://dirtbagwriter@gmail.com Amiee

    That sounds awesome! Will definitely consider it having thoroughly enjoyed he first installation of Matador U.

  • http://angryredhead.wordpress.com Candice

    Excited excited excited! Except I broke my camera and can’t afford a new one.

  • http://nancythegnomette.com Nancy

    This is super exciting!!! I’ve been taking photography lessons since I’ve recently purchased my first SLR and a couple of lenses. Can’t wait for the course.

  • http://www.mikehedge.com Mike Hedge

    very neat.

  • http://exhaustedmirror.wordpress.com/ Sej

    Wowww can’t wait! Feels like this was the only thing missing. I’m gonna start saving up for a camera now :)

  • http://www.makemytrip.ae nichypal

    Wow!

    The information in this post is quite interesting it helped me a lot.

    We also provide the package trip the for the upcoming photographer from the MakeMyTrip UAE ( http://www.makemytrip.ae ) travels.

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