Sean Arbabi

Sean has been a commercial travel photographer and author for over 32 years, specializing in adventure, lifestyle, nature, and travel; for ad, corporate, and editorial clients.

He's completed freelance and contracted assignments with hundreds of publications and companies worldwide including Amazon, American Express, Backpacker, California Division of Tourism, Endless Vacation, Engadget, Fuji Film, GEO Germany, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, National Geographic's book, calendar, and online divisions as well as Adventure and Traveler, The New York Times, Nikon, The North Face, Outdoor Photographer, Outside, Peterson's Photographic, Photoshop User, Random House, Rangefinder, REI, Timex, The Travel Channel, VisitFlorida.com, and Woodbridge wines.

Sean shot over 200 assignments for Sunset, over 150 for Via magazine, and authored many feature articles and books which he photographed including The BetterPhoto Guide to Exposure (Jan 2009), and The Complete Guide to Nature Photography (Dec 2011) both for Amphoto/ Random House. He's taught workshops, live (Calumet, Camera West, Future Light, Point Reyes), and is a pro speaker for Tamron lenses.

As the Photoguru, he has appeared on numerous television segments, radio and web shows including ABC San Francisco's The View from the Bay, CBS San Francisco's Bay Area Focus, ABC Radio Southeast, Scott Sheppard's Inside Digital Radio and Nik Radio, and Ibarionex Perello's The Candid Frame discussing various aspects of the photo industry.

A native Californian, he received his Bachelor of Arts in commercial photography from Brooks Institute in '91, began his business thereafter combining outdoor, on-location, and studio photography. To date he's shot over a million images, written numerous articles, led crews, and spoke on tv, radio, podcasts, workshops, and seminars.

Sean has traveled around much of the US, and international locations including Canada, Iran, Mexico, the UK, Southeast Asia, and; South America. He has backpacked over mountain ranges, helicoptered above jungles, ridden horseback across plains, traversed across mountain ranges, rafted down rivers, mountain biked along forest trails, sailed on oceans, and hung over cliffs, all to capture images he and his clients were in search of. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area, base camp for all his travels.