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 Mary Altier: Documenting our world through words and images. A travel author and photographer bringing you closer to some of the furthest corners of the globe.
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Mary Altier is available for assignments anywhere in the world. Contact her at 831- 684-1340 (Voice and FAX) or by email: photos@maryaltier.com


Photo Subject Matter
  • Indigenous People (Families, Children, Aged)
  • Environmental Portraiture
  • People Doing Physical Labor
  • Women Performing Non-traditional Roles
  • Traditional Costume
  • Ceremonies, Rituals, and Festivals (Religious and Cultural)
  • Archaeological Sites
  • Agriculture, All Stages (Especially Subsistence)
  • Food Products, Growing and in Markets
  • Handicrafts
  • Vernacular and Other Architecture
  • Cities
  • Landscape
  • National Parks and Preserves
  • Endangered Regions and Cultures

Recent Travel Coverage
  • Papua New Guinea: Tribal gathering (Sing Sing) at Mt. Hagan, Ambua (the highlands), coastal Madang, and Tari, on a tributary of the Sepik River. Tribal people in many cultural contexts: Huli Wigmen, Mudmen, and more

  • Australia's East Coast: From Port Douglas to Sydney and its surroundings: Cairns, Mareeba, Palm Cove, Charter's Towers, Arlie Beach, Magnetic Island, Whitsunday Islands, Hervey Bay , Fraser Island, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Byron Bay, Noosa, Hunter Valley, Blue Mountains.

  • Cambodia: Angkor Wat, Siem Reap, Phnom Penh, Mekong River.

  • Laos: Tribal people near Chinese border: Akha, Thai Dam, etc. Vientianne, Luang Prabang, Luang Namtha, Muang Xai (Udonxai), Nong Khiaw, Pak Ou Caves, Champasak, Plain of Jars, Mekong River, Don Khon (Island in the Mekong).

  • Mexico: Ceramics village of Mata Ortiz, archaeological site of Paquime', and Casas Grandes, Chihuahua.

  • Hawaii: Kauai, Lanai, Big Island of Hawaii, Honolulu, Maui.

  • France: Paris and Chambord Castle (Loire Valley) in winter.

  • Tunisia: Tunis, Cap Bon, Carthage, Dugga, El Jem, Hammamet, Nabeul, Sidi Bou Said, Sousse, people in native costume, archaeological sites.

  • Spain: Seville, Cordoba, Grenada, Malaga, White Towns, Rhonda, Arcos de la Frontera.

  • Ethiopia: Timkat Festival in Lalibela. Axum, Bahir Dar, Gondar, Addis Ababa, Harrar, Simien Mountains, Omo Valley: tribal people (Mursi, Hamar, Karo, etc.).

  • Italy: Rome, Lake Region, Milan, San Remo, Turin (Slow Food's Salone del Gusto), Paestum, Aeolian Islands, Sorrento, Amalfi Coast, Caserta (Palazzo Reale), Veruvius, Cortona, Calabria (Tropea and mountain villages).

  • India: Bangalore, Mysore, Chenai (formerly Madras), Pondicherry, Tirapati, Orissa (tribal people, Puri temples).

  • Sri Lanka: Colombo, Galle, Kandy, Polonnaruwa. Archaeological sites: Cultural Triangle and more.





2003 © Mary Altier. Contact Mary at 831-684-1340 (Voice and FAX) or photos@maryaltier.com.


For more information:

Mary Altier, Words and Images
831-684-1340 (Voice and FAX)
Email: photos@maryaltier.com



"Mary Altier is an intrepid traveler with a passion for sights most of us will never see. Discomfort doesn't deter her from seeking out the most remote tribes and villages, and she is as at ease in a crowd of men wearing loincloths as she is in an elevator full of business people in suits. She has an eye for detail and an ear for local nuance. She travels without the layer of comfort that distances most travelers from the real cultures they are passing through."

Judy Babcock Wylie, International Travel Writer
(Author, Best Places: Central California Coast, and Editor, Travelers' Tales Guide, Love and Romance)