Issue 90 of The Climber magazine, features one of my photographs. It’s amazing what momentum has been generated since I decided to really pursue photography as a serious discipline alongside guiding.
Photography and Mountaineering
Photography and mountaineering are natural companions. Both demand patience, technical precision, and an ability to read conditions — to recognise the moment before it arrives and be prepared for it when it does.
Guiding in the Southern Alps provides extraordinary access to dramatic mountain light. The alpenglow on the peaks at dawn, the play of shadow and sunlight across glaciers, the tiny figures of climbers against vast faces of ice and rock — these are images that most photographers never get close to.
The Climber Magazine
The Climber is the flagship publication of the New Zealand Alpine Club. Getting an image onto the cover of Issue 90 was a significant milestone — both for the photography and for the broader creative work of sharing the mountains with a wider audience.
Gavin Lang Photography
The photography work runs alongside and in complement to the guiding. They feed each other: guiding provides access and experience; photography provides a different mode of engagement with the mountains.
You can see more of the photography work at gavinlangphotography.com.