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Originally from Stockholm, Amy Helene Johansson is a photojournalist now living in Dhaka, Bangladesh.  Trained as a fashion designer Johansson spent ten years working for H&M, before a workshop with world renowned photographer Steve McCurry changed her life.  Photography became her passion and she never looked back.

She describes the moment she took this photograph as one of her happiest… “riding on the roof of a train with thousands of excited Bangladeshis going home to celebrate the Eid festival. Cheesy tunes on cheap transistor radios and wind blowing in my hair, I leaned over the edge of the train to take the picture that finished in the finals of the National Geographic photography competition 2010.”

“Unsafe Journey” by Amy Helene Johansson 2010

The digital revolution in photography over the past decade has made photography a lot less expensive, a lot less intimidating and a lot more accessible.  Beginner’s can afford to experiment; taking hundreds of pictures and learning from each one to improve their skills bit by bit.

The woman who took this photograph is a self taught photographer and her’s is a story of great success.  She is one of thousands of women who, in the last ten years, has picked up a camera and found it difficult to put it down again.  So girls, be inspired!  There’s a great big beautiful world out there just waiting to be captured.