Behind the lens with Emily Nathan
A picture is worth a thousand words and tells a thousand different stories. This is what co-founder of Tiny Atlas Quarterly, Emily Nathan sets out to achieve every day.
Tiny Atlas Quarterly is an online travel and lifestyle magazine that has accumulated a large social media following, which has brought her passion to life. Hashtag #mytinyatlas has six million entries with an estimated 8000 photographs submitted daily.
Nathan attended this year’s 20th WINTEC’s Media arts Spark festival to speak about turning a personal project into a global brand.
Nathan tells her story visually through her Instagram photos and portfolio which is a time-lapse of her professional career as an editorial and advertising photographer working for companies such as Ritz Carlton and Apple.
“I have an insatiable curiosity about the world, Culture and diversity which for me is another definition of travel.”
She explained that as her work interwinds, photography is a trade and to make a sustainable income you need a community around you to make it enjoyable and worthwhile.
Originally Nathan did not want to be a lifestyle photographer as she wanted to go into photojournalism. “I thought it wasn’t showing what reality was. There is a lot of commercial photographers but there are not a lot of authentic pictures to look at.”
Nathan’s advice to the aspiring photographers? “The best photos for your portfolio are trying to overcome what you haven’t seen before. Don’t mold yourself. Take your curiosity and go for it.
“Travel freshens your vision and there is always somewhere new to visit. I feel like I have a unique or somewhat unique take on childlike imagery when I am somewhere new.”
