I have never been drawn to any genre of photography more than people portraits. Travel portraits, to be specific. From early days I have been strongly influenced by the work of National Geographic photographers, especially Steve McCurry and William Albert Allard. I would spend hours pouring over the images of exotic locations and the people that inhabited them. I was entranced and wanted nothing more than to travel to these places myself…and perhaps bring back a few interesting images of my own. My wishes had come true since then, to a certain extent. Over the past few years, I…