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Hughes in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia June 2010
Born	1979 Liverpool

Graham David Hughes (born 1979) is an adventurer, filmmaker, television presenter and Guinness World Records holder. He is currently presenting the television program “Graham’s World” on the National Geographic Adventure channel, a weekly look into his ongoing quest to break multiple world records by visiting every country on earth without flying.^[1]

Expeditions[link]

The Odyssey Expedition is a quest to drop in on every one of the 192 UN member states (plus eight assorted others, in the interest of a round number) without flying. The rules of his trip are: no flying, no private transport (a rule enforced by the Guinness World Records race regulations, which cannot condone a public race in private vehicles) and no travelling to far flung territories and counting them as visiting the motherland.^[2]

While on The Odyssey Expedition, Hughes is helping raise funds and awareness for the charity WaterAid.^[3]

World records[link]

He has set a new Guinness World Record by visiting "133 countries in one year by scheduled ground transport."^[4]

He is set to hold the world record for visiting every UN member state and eight other countries to bring his total count to 200 visited states.Graham Hughes will be the first person to visit every country in one unbroken solo journey and he is still on course for the record for visiting every country in the world in the shortest amount of time, flying or single surface journey.

Television programs[link]

Graham's personal video log of his trip has been converted into a television series called “Graham’s World” on the National Geographic Adventure channel.^[5] It is an 8 part series covering Graham's first year traveling to every country in the Americas, Europe and most of Africa from January 2009 - December 2009. Highlights of the trip included imprisonment in Congo, getting caught sneaking into Russia, and running the blockade into Cuba. He was arrested in Estonia and Cameroon and spent jail time in Congo^[6] and Cape Verde.^[7]

As of April 2012 he has visited 197 countries in the world, with 4 still left to complete.^[8][9]

Film and music videos[link]

With his company, Hydra Studios, he has written and directed a number of short films and won the inaugural Liverpool 48 Hour Film Challenge in 2006. Hughes has worked for World Challenge Expeditions, producing several travel videos. He has also been heavily involved in the Liverpool music scene, shooting or producing videos for Hot Club De Paris, The Dead 60’s, The Basement, (We are) Performance, Peter And The Wolf, Lyons And Tigers, China Crisis, The Coral, The Real Kicks, The Sonic Hearts, Metro Manila Aide, White Rose Movement and filming for the release of the Arctic Monkeys second album, Favourite Worst Nightmare.^[10]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Graham Hughes's Expedition website

Vincent Laforet (born 1975, Switzerland) is a French American director and photographer. Laforet shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography with two other photographers as a member of The New York Times staff's coverage of the post 9/11 events overseas that captured "the pain and the perseverance of people enduring protracted conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan."^[1] In 2006, Laforet became the Times' s first national contract photographer.^[2] He has been sent on assignment by Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Time, Newsweek, and Life. He is represented by the Stockland Martel agency.

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In 2002, PDN named Vincent Laforêt as one of the “30 photographers under 30 to watch″. In 2005, American Photo Magazine recognized Laforêt as one of the “100 Most Influential People in Photography.” He and four other photographers were awarded the Pulitzer Prize in Feature Photography for their post-9/11 coverage overseas in 2002. His work has been recognized in the Communication Arts Annual, PDN Annual, The SPD Magazine Cover of the Year (Society of Publication Designers), The World Press Photo Awards, The Pictures of the Year Competition, The Overseas Press Club, The National Headliners Awards, The Pro-Football Hall of Fame. Vincent is a Canon Explorer of Light and Canon Printmaster and serves as consultant to companies such as Apple, Adobe, Carl Zeiss, Leica, Canon, Bogen, Lexar, and X-Rite. He and his work have been profiled on CNN and Good Morning America.

In 2008 Laforet directed "Reverie", the first widely available short film shot with the Canon 5d mark II camera. The video has been cited by proposers of the use of DSLR cameras in digital cinematography^[3] and has been heralded as one of the films that launched the HDSLR movement.

In 2010 he launched a nationwide film competition "Beyond The Still" and he directed the final chapter the film which was screened at the Sundance Film Festival. He is a DGA Director (Director's Guild of America) and of the ICG (International Cinematographers' Guild - Local 600.) He has directed a number of short films and numerous commercials.

In 2011, he was chosen by Canon. to be one of the first 4 filmmakers to shoot with their first cinema camera, the Canon C300, and he directed the film "Mobius" which premiered at Paramount Studios. The opening was attended by Martin Scorsese, Ron Howard, Robert Rodriguez, and JJ Abrams.

In 2011 his first book VISUALS STORIES (see below for link) was released by Peachpit and describes his thought process and approach to a variety of assignments throughout his photography career.

Laforet has been awarded 3 of the prestigious Cannes Lions (Platinum, Gold, Silver) for his commercial directing work.

Laforet attended the Dalton School and received his B.S. from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in 1997. He is fluent in French and speaks Russian and Spanish. He lives in Manhattan Beach, California^[2]

Laforet was an adjunct professor at the Columbia Journalism's Graduate School of Journalism, The International Center of Photography and the Poynter Institute. He was inducted in Northwestern's Alumni Hall of Fame in 2010.

Laforet is one of the speakers at the Vimeo Festival+Awards 2012.^[4]

External links[link]

• His site: Laforet Visuals
• One of the more popular HDSRL/Photography blogs - blog.vincentlaforet.com
• His Vimeo Page
• His book "VISUAL STORIES
• Stockland Martel photo agency

References[link]