Photographer Ingetje Tadros (1959) left her tiny hometown in The Netherlands at seventeen to travel the planet and never left her camera at home. Impressed by impressions she was always looking for the right shot to let the people speak their stories by her photographs. She was employed by the famous Amsterdam World Museum and a popular travel planner for Nouvelles Frontières. Ingetje is married with and Egyptian chef and craftsman and relocated to New Zealand with her six weeks old baby. Here she started planning traveling and improving her photographs. India became her new destination in life. After another tour around the world with her family she finalized the tour with a twelve months off road across Australia where they settled in Broome.

A new restaurant became a permanent exposition of good food and excellent tastes of the world illustrated by extra large prints and productions. Getting compliments finally pushed her to publish when she came home again after a survey on Mali and later Ethiopia where her passion for people was underlined again. Ingetje does not use Photoshop and only uses little technical support or additions to make things better. She probably is the best to describe as organic, nothing else than natural ingredients are used. What you see is still what it is and what is was when she turned the impression into eternity.

Ingetje is free lancing for Dutch based World Portraits and The Western Australian Newspaper in Australia and is contributing to a leading creator and distributor of still imagery, footage, music and other premium content, Getty Images is a well respected, world renouned digital media provider and Ingetje is proud to be a part of a global group of award-winning Contributors who create inspiring work that appears every day in the world’s most influential newspapers, magazines, advertising campaigns, films, television programs, books and websites. Ingetje is one of the handful of photographers in Australia assigned to a local art director. They work together to update the Getty Images creative stills library shooting local, relevant content based on quarterly trend reports and customer feedback.  Ingetje has travelled over 45 countries and  is interested to work as a photographer for Non Profits , documentary and Tribal issues.

AYR PHOTOS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW:

Your works are born from a specific project or emotion in the moment?
I work very impulsive, if i see something that i REALLY like i get a special feeling in me, a sort of a rush, i have learned that i have to react to this ‘emotion’ , now i listen to this feeling all the time , even if it is a difficult situation i mostly get the result i want. It has happened quit a lot that i even did not know what was going to happen or what i was going to see, but that rush still came, in the beginning i thought it was a strange feeling now i know that this is my strength and i have to listen to it.

What is the creative element that you feel stronger and recurrent in your photos and what you think will never have the space?
I feel very drawn to people, especially indigenous, sometimes when a situation is difficult and i get really challenged i feel i create the best and i feel in my best element! i connect easily to people and with a lot of smile and jokes and respect you can go a long way!and what you think will never have the space , i’m not sure if i understand this question, but for example a wedding or landscapes doesn’t really do it for me, even i like some works of great wedding photographers or landscape photographers i don’t have that emotion to create. i need people and the unknown

What are three characteristics that must have a good photographer?
I believe passion is the biggest characteristic, also a drive is very important and a personality to easy connect ( passion, drive,personality)

I believe that intervention in post-production is crucial to the success of the photo story, or think is best without the photo retouching?
I do not like personally a lot of post-production, till this stage i’ve never used Photoshop, and only use Aperture (3) , i only do a little as i believe if you change to much, it becomes more an Art form and you loose that ‘moment” and the feel of it. (I want the photo how it was at that moment)

What are the people, places or events you most like to capture in the future:
I will endeavour to capture more tribal people and their culture, i hope to retire from my Restaurant business as soon as i have a change and travel to remote places and even stay and live their if needed, make books about it, i have many plans and also my Personal project is Indigenous Aboriginal Australia, i hope in the near future to document Aboriginal communities but even more important their “Stories”

Ingetje Tadros
AWARD:
Ingetje Self Published her first Photo Book TRIBAL ETHIOPIA and is now for sale at Amazon www.amazon.com/Tribal-Ethiopia-Ingetje-Tadros/dp/09870841…

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When did you first discover your passion for photography and travel?
The two passions were born separately for me, first came photography and much later in my life came travel. From an early age I was surrounded by some of the world’s most beautiful cameras as my family owned a specialist camera shop, therefore taking photographs was always part of my life. In terms of becoming a professional it happened by accident in all honesty, people were always telling me how much they liked my photographs and so after a few years I decided to turn my hobby into a full time job.

My love for travel came from my honeymoon, my husband and I decided to travel around Asia and Australia for 6 weeks and within that period we were both very much taken with the allure of seeing the world. When we returned to the UK we sold our house and all of our belongings and left for 18 months. It was during this trip that I feel our path in life totally changed, and since then we have mainly been on the road. Luckily for me, the two, photography and travel, work perfectly together and my career as a travel photographer was born.