Travel photographer's focus shifts from Arctic to Tassie

INTREPID adventure travel photographer Chris Bray is taking time out in southern Tasmania.

INTREPID travel photographer Chris Bray is taking time out in southern Tasmania as he prepares for yet another year of global adventuring.

Bray, 30, best known for his gruelling expedition across an Arctic island, has just wrapped up a photography tour of Tasmania’s East Coast.

The Sydney-based photographer has made a documentary with his friend Clark Carter about their 128-day walk, with no support, across Victoria Island in the Canadian Arctic.

The film, which will show at Hobart’s State Cinema next month, documents the pair’s mission to drag home-made kayaks more than 1000km across the remote island in extreme conditions.

Bray’s safari-style photography tour business started with annual trips to Tasmania but he and his fiancee, fellow photographer Jessica Taunton, now run tours in such far-flung places as Kenya, the Arctic and the Galapagos Islands.

They plan to marry in August, but where to honeymoon? Bray said they’re so used to extreme adventure travel that it was hard to imagine relaxing in a serene location. “I’d love some suggestions,” he said.