Rudolf Abraham is an award-winning writer and photographer whose love of travel and remote places has taken him from the Balkans to eastern Turkey, Central Asia and Patagonia. He has written, illustrated or contributed to numerous books, guidebooks and articles on these areas - from trekking in remote mountains and national parks, to historic architecture, culture and reportage - and supplies high quality stock images to editorial clients through his website as well as Photographers Direct and Alamy.
Rudolf first visited Croatia in 1998, lived in Zagreb from 1999 to 2001 where he worked as an English teacher, and continues to make several trips a year to his favourite country in Europe. He has also made some half a dozen trips to Montenegro since 2003. His knowledge of these two countries is particularly detailed, covering not only the better-known cities, the popular coast and islands, but also many of the more remote mountain areas of Croatia and Montenegro.
Over the past 12 years Rudolf has also travelled extensively and repeatedly in eastern Turkey (at least 15 visits), the Caucasus, Patagonia (Chile and Argentina), Iran and the Central Asian Republics. During these travels he has walked and climbed in the Karakoram, the Tien Shan, Ladakh, New Zealand’s Southern Alps, the southern Andes, and the mountains of Iran and eastern Turkey.
RIGHT: Old fishing boats, Puerto Natales, Patagonia, Chile
Rudolf studied fine arts, majoring in photography, and completed an MA in Islamic art and archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
He is the author of Walking in Croatia (2nd edition 2010), The Mountains of Montenegro (2007, winner 'best guidebook' in the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild Awards, 2008), and a guide to trekking in Torres del Paine national park in Chile, all published by Cicerone Press, as well as a new Croatia guide for National Geographic Traveler. He is currently working on guidebooks to the mountains of eastern Turkey, Arctic Norway and long distance trails in Northumberland. Other recent commissions have included contributing to DK Eyewitness' The World on a Plate and The Road Less Travelled and updating the Bradt guide to Croatia. He is a regular contributor to hidden europe, CNN Traveller, Heritge, BBC Countryfile and Wanderlust, and also writes on Islamic art and architecture. As well as the British Guild of Travel Writers, Rudolf is a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild, and Writers and Photographers unLimited; his photographs can be licensed through RUDOLF ABRAHAM photography, Photographers Direct and Alamy. He is based in London.
