About Kraig

Kraig Lieb, a photographer for Lonely Planet Publications, has been photographing cultures from around the globe for the past 25 years, specializing in Travel photography from Asia, Central America & North America.

Lieb’s photos appear in more than 75 Lonely Planet books, and his images have been featured on four Lonely Planet covers: Southeast Asia on a Shoestring, Central America on a Shoestring, Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks and Bangkok. His photographs have been published by the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, TIME Magazine, National Geographic, the BBC, Amnesty International, UNESCO, Oxford University, Cambridge University, Harvard, USA Today, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Brisbane Times, Amazon.com, Art.com, and Yahoo, and used in advertising by Marriott, Hilton, Kodak, Dior and Vietnam Airlines.

his 2008 book, "Guatemala: a Journey Through the Land of the Maya" has hit #1 in 3 different Amazon best selling categories. for an on-line look at the book, you can visit his book's website:
www.guatemala-thebook.com 

Since graduating from Penn State University in 1984, Lieb has worked, lived and traveled extensively throughout Southeast Asia, North America, and Central America. For 4 years in the mid-1990s, Lieb was based in Vietnam, working with Image Design / Visionary Vietnam, a leading postcard & book publishing company. From 2002 – 2006 he was based in Antigua, Guatemala

Lieb’s work can be found on art prints, postcards, greeting cards, calendars, magazines and books throughout Asia, North America, Central America and Europe. Lieb runs Purple Moon Publications which publishes postcards, books, calendars and art prints in Guatemala, Cambodia, and Northern California. He is based in SE Asia during summers and winters, and in Northern California during the spring and fall.