Oct 08 - 'If You Leave' Travel Photography Exhibition
A local photographer who caught the travel bug has put his photography from his travels on display at the John Mackintosh Hall.
Gianni Cumbo travelled to India, Thailand, Indonesia and Israel on his latest trip, and shares a selection of his photographs with short explanations in his ‘If You Leave’ Travel Photography Exhibition for all to see.
The exhibition will continue until Friday, and after having taken thousands of photographs on his Canon Powershot G12 camera, those on display are the ones that really moved Gianni and had a story to tell.
Speaking to Your Gibraltar TV at the launch of his exhibition last night, Gianni said: “I really wanted to bring the east to the west, and to have people go on this adventure with me through these photographs.
“I wanted them to have a look at that side of the world and to get a taste for them, and if they have that travel bug within them, then hopefully my exhibition has been able to spark that in them.”
Although Gianni travelled around these places for more than five months, he said there wasn’t a single time he felt lonely. He was quick to make friends with people he met along the way, and was more than happy to bump into them in a completely different part of the world.
While he was travelling, it was the sights and the people who really intrigued Gianni. With his camera ever at the ready, Gianni just took shots of all the different things that attracted him.
One of the highlights of Gianni’s trip was going up Mount Ijen in Indonesia, and overlooking the blue lava in the crater. This was an over-night trek which he described as a “humbling experience”. He also had an opportunity of going up a derelict skyscraper in Bangkok with some friends, before the authorities sealed it off, and took some beautiful images of the city from a high vantage point.
Now that Gianni is back in Gibraltar, he is already making plans for his next trip.
He explains: “I went travelling when I finished university and it was an amazing experience, but this time I wanted more.
“One of my favourite places to visit and to photograph was definitely India, it was the most intense place. It was the most raw, in your face place, in the same way the most beautiful, it was just one extreme or another, there was no middle.”
The exhibition is open until Friday 9th October from 9am to 10pm.
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