The INSIDER Summary:
- Chase Guttman is a photojournalism student who has already authored a guide to drone photography.
- It's in his blood. His father is renown travel photographer Peter Guttman.
- He appreciates the way drone photographs contextualize their surroundings.
Chase Guttman's childhood was, perhaps, a bit different than most.
"I was land yachting in the Mojave Desert when I was three months old, on my parents' lap," he told INSIDER.
Through his father's work as a travel photographer, he'd visited all 50 states by the time he turned 18. Now a 20-year-old junior at Syracuse University studying abroad in France, he's become a talented travel photographer in his own right — just ask his 46,000 Instagram followers.
He has now visited 50 countries and counting, and, having mastered the use of drones to produce stunning images of his destinations, he recently authored "The Handbook of Drone Photography." He even teaches travel photography courses, though he's still a photojournalism student himself.
Guttman spoke to INSIDER from Strasbourg about why drones are one of the best ways to see the world.
"I grew up in a very visual family," Guttman said.
His father is Peter Gurman, a renown travel photographer who hosts annual slideshow viewings in the family's apartment on the Upper West Side.
"It's basically this get-together at our house at the end of the year where my dad narrates and goes through all the photos that he's taken from around the world in that year," he said. "I always appreciated the photography and seeing people's reactions to the images, and that's really how I got engaged with photography."
He started with toy cameras, then progressed to point-and-shoot models ("which I lost a bunch of at a ridiculously young age," he said) and DSLRs.
He began using drones two and a half years ago.
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