Penda Photo Tours

Join a volunteer project in South Africa, combining wildlife photography with contributing to conservation efforts, for four weeks. This is your chance to photograph amazing African wildlife, including lions, elephants and leopards, with expert tutorials from a professional photographer to help and support you. A love of photography and wildlife is all you need to join this trip, which is suitable for photographers of all levels and experience, from beginners to professionals. You will also be taught how to edit your photos in Lightroom, so some basic computer skills are required. As well as building up a wonderful and unique portfolio, you can also contribute your pictures to an online ...Read more >

Embark on an exciting humanitarian photography program in Cape Town, South Africa! It's a great opportunity to contribute to grassroots charities through your photography, and to build a unique portfolio of images at the same time. You'll be guided by humanitarian photographer Anna Lusty, who will assist you throughout the experience. You'll start your program with a one-week workshop by Anna, which will teach you everything you need to know about photographing nonprofits in a South African context. It will prepare you for your individual assignments that you'll start from the second week; each week, you'll join a nonprofit organisation of your choice, and you'll have a chance to learn ...Read more >

Not yet a primarily touristic location, Madagascar offers a vast amount of unspoiled beauty to explore and photograph. During this workshop, we will travel around the island to some of the most sought-after photographic landscapes where we will photograph villages, salt flats, the famous Baobab trees, protected lemurs, and geological formations. Coming to Madagascar, travellers encounter breath-taking views. The natural lights and shadows projected on the views make the experience unforgettable, and define this land as the once-in-a-lifetime experience that any adventurous would want to undertake! We will be staying in comfortable locations in our many destinations, within amazing ...Read more >

Embark on a photographic journey to a small wildlife reserve in Zimbabwe. Enjoy uniquely close encounters with rhinos, elephants and cheetahs and receive expert photography tuition from zoologist and award-winning photographer Sam Turley. Learn new photographic skills, enhance your portfolio with a conservation-focused photo story and bask in the magnificent scenery and wildlife of Zimbabwe. For this weeklong wildlife photography workshop and experience, you will stay at Imire Rhino and Wildlife Conservancy: home to zebra, buffalo, antelope, giraffe and an abundance of birds and reptiles. Imire is also a wild sanctuary for three rescued elephants, two eighth-generation captive bred ...Read more >

Enjoy close encounters with lions and leopards, photograph elephants and rhinos, drink sun-downers under acacia trees, and get professional photographic tutoring at the same time during an exclusive wildlife photography workshop in South Africa. Set in a private game reserve in the Timbavati, this photo safari is a wildlife photography dream. The area is known for its incredible sightings of the African Big Five, including the elusive leopard.   Throughout the workshop, you’ll be guided by professional wildlife photographer Alan Hewitt, who will provide both theoretical and practical photographic tutoring and will help you become the best photographer you can be. The Timbavati, a ...Read more >