A Photographer's Journey By Boswell: A non-fiction biographical memoir -- mostly with pseudonyms – in the third person

Boswell

Mar 2023 · Photo Explorer Productions

About this ebook

Who is Boswell? 

Boswell is the pseudonym for an award-winning freelance photographer with engaging and sometimes controversial stories to tell.

   You’ve likely seen his photos in national and international magazines, books and travel brochures. This ebook will describe how an inspiration during his early years in a tiny rural Midwestern town led to a life spent traveling in 130 countries on all seven continents and how a successful business was built by producing a prolific number of marketable photos as a professional stock and assignment photographer.

 

   Filled with entertaining anecdotes and accompanied by 99 photos, Boswell’s journey takes readers inside some of the most colorful aspects of editorial and corporate photography: Landing and executing magazine assignments, gaining “special access required” entrée to exclusive corridors of privilege, “seeking serendipity” in the world’s streets, and cruising the world’s seas and oceans -- as well as uncovering some dark sides of the industry. 

   Just a few stories include: Waiting for Mandela, chasing Doctor Death, repatriating skyjackers from Cuba, attending Zimbabwe’s first session of parliament, surviving the Drake Passage, standing on stage with the Lord of the Dance, roving the pits with famous race drivers, hanging with a Piston Bad Boy, chumming with Sparky in the Tigers locker room, and being interviewed by oral historian Studs Turkel while taking his portrait.

 

   One of the first Americans to visit Mao’s China during the Cultural Revolution, Boswell returned over fifty times to produce books on China, including a very large one stolen by the French. Several chapters of his unlikely story are devoted to travels in China, how specializing in that country proved a key to his photographic success, and why he fell in love in a rice paddy. 

Ratings and reviews

In this memoir, "Boswell" traces his lifelong journey from a small Midwestern town to traveling around the world as an award-winning professional travel photographer, with many stops along the way -- some of them pretty bumpy (including a lengthy stint as a social worker in Detroit after college). Written with an often dry wit, Boswell takes us behind the scenes to show that the life of a photojournalist isn't all glamor, or even mostly glamor. But it's also a hell of an interesting ride.

This memoir should sell for more than $3.99, but Boswell has never been greedy.

About the author

Boswell is the pseudonym for an award-winning freelance photographer (and sometimes writer) with an engaging and sometimes controversial story to tell about his travels (130 countries including over 50 trips to China alone), assignments for national magazines, book projects, encounters with famous and infamous people (many the subjects of his photographs), and much more about life, business, and poetry.