"My first Olympus was a Camedia C8080 as I felt that the handling was so similar to a 35mm rangefinder camera, and the optics were superb. My work takes me to some of the remotest and least hospitable parts of the world so my next purchase  was an E-1, which is built like a tank. Then as soon as the E-3 was launched, I had to have one, as again, it is bomb-proof, it can handle the toughest conditions and has never let me down; and the ED lens-optics always produce pin-sharp, almost film-like images."

Jeremy Hunter began his career in advertising, as a TV producer, but over the past thirty years has divided his time between television documentary reportage and photo-journalism. He was a foreign correspondent for NIRTV in Tehran, reporting extensively from around the world - the civil war in the Lebanon, the first democratic elections in Portugal, the uprising in India and assassination of Indira Gandhi, and the coronation of the cannibal ‘Emperor’ Jean-Bedel Bokassa in the Central African Empire.  He has also worked for the BBC, Granada TV and Channel 4. Throughout his long career in television and the media, he has taken a special interest in documenting the world’s festivals, rituals, pilgrimages and celebrations. With the help of anthropologists, specialist academics and local indigeneous groups, he has taken every opportunity on his travels to research, compile, photograph and participate in them.  Let’s Celebrate 365 is the result of this life-long interest and work, and an exhibition derived from these is currently touring England and Europe. Last shown in France at the Olympic Village of Albertville, it received 15,000 visitors in just two days.
He contributes to The Sunday Times, Telegraph Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, Telegraph Travel, Conde Nast Traveller, The Guardian, Mail on Sunday, Wanderlust, Bunte, Stern, Epoca, Panorama and many other travel-related publications.  He is also the author of six books on the world's festivals and ceremonies.

www.jeremyhunter.com