10 Monastic and Sacred Landscapes: Cliffs, Rock-Cut Spaces and Historic Sites
A monastery’s setting can be part of its story long before you reach the entrance. A building high on a rock, a path through mountain woodla...
A monastery’s setting can be part of its story long before you reach the entrance. A building high on a rock, a path through mountain woodla...
Some places are best discovered at the speed of a doorway, a shop window or a patch of shade. A narrow street draws you onward, then a small...
An unusual stone caught Ferdinand Cheval’s attention during his postal round. What followed was not a weekend hobby, but decades of collecti...
Photo: Juan Antonio Patiño Méndez . The ceiling above a street in Setenil de las Bodegas can be a cliff. White walls rise towards an enormou...
A quiet table beside a pool, the town’s lights across the water and a room where the colours let the sea do the talking: Bill&Coo’s olde...
One person wants water slides, another wants rides, and someone else would be happy with lunch and a look around the shops. West Edmonton Ma...
A small timber house on a trailer can make the idea of home feel wonderfully portable. Jenna Spesard and Guillaume Dutilh explored that poss...
Water reflects a wide sky, mountains disappear into cloud and a small person changes the apparent size of an enormous landscape. Antony Harr...
Lord Howe Island combines a sheltered lagoon with steep green mountains and a wonderfully compact sense of place. You can spend a morning cl...
An aircraft approaching over the sea can look startlingly close to Maho Beach. The runway setting makes this small stretch of Sint Maarten o...
On a calm, wet day, Salar de Uyuni can turn the sky into a floor. In dry conditions, a different landscape appears: pale salt patterns, long...
The climb gives you time to think. Then the track tips toward the ground, the horizon moves and a very large roller coaster starts to feel s...
A lighthouse stands at the edge of a rocky headland, with the sea opening around it. In Panos Smirniotis’s aerial film of the Corinth area, ...
A window creates a frame within a frame. Several young novices gather inside it, their faces drawing your attention before the surrounding a...
From the ground, Las Vegas arrives as a succession of signs, buildings and busy intersections. In Vincent Laforet’s aerial photographs, thos...
A pale band crosses the space between tree trunks. Small rounded structures gather on a forest floor. Elsewhere, a woodland seems to contain...
A broad city view can contain more than you notice at first: rows of roofs, narrow connections between buildings and changes in texture wher...
A campervan is a small subject against a broad landscape, and that is part of its appeal in Johan Lolos’s New Zealand photographs. It gives ...