Ringscapes: Peter Adams-Shawn’s Wedding Photos Reflected in Rings
Ringscapes is a series of wedding photographs by Peter Adams-Shawn, a self-taught photographer from Western Australia, in which the whole sc...
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Creative Travel: Stories & Places to Explore
Discover Peter Adams-Shawn’s Ringscapes photographs, where wedding rings hold miniature scenes, and try a simple reflection exercise on your travels. Explore Ed Fairburn’s portraits on maps and discover how roads, contours and coastlines become part of a face, with a creative travel-journal exercise.
Start with Ringscapes: Peter Adams-Shawn’s Tiny Reflected Worlds and Ed Fairburn’s Map Portraits: Faces Hidden in Roads and Rivers.
Ed Fairburn’s Map Portraits: Faces Drawn in Ink over Old Maps
Ed Fairburn draws portraits on maps. Roads become lines of shading, clusters of streets deepen a shadow and a coastline traces the edge of a...
Paperboyo: Rich McCor’s Paper Cut-Outs That Turn Landmarks into Jokes
A black paper silhouette held at arm's length, a famous building in the distance and a carefully chosen spot to stand: that is the whol...
Nick Pandev's Travel Photography: Santorini, Bulgaria and Iceland
As the sun sets over Santorini, the whitewashed houses on the caldera rim light up one window at a time above the darkening Aegean. Bulgaria...
Five Seconds a Day: A Couple’s Motorcycle Film of 13 European Countries
A coffee cup rattling on a café table, a border sign flashing past, a mountain road unrolling in front of the handlebars. A couple riding a ...
Takashi Yasui’s Photographs of Everyday Life in Japan
A red umbrella against pale paving. A figure walking through a corridor of vermilion gates. A flowering tree half lost in mist. Takashi Yasu...
Piano Around the World: Dotan Negrin’s Road Trip with an Upright Piano
Most travellers try to pack lighter. Dotan Negrin went the other way: in 2010 the young New Yorker spent his savings on a box truck and an ...
Hidenobu Suzuki's Japan: Painterly Landscape Photographs and the Artist
Pink blossom carpets a hillside, mountain ridges fade into warm cloud, and rice terraces curve between dark slopes. Hidenobu Suzuki’s lands...
Eleven Famous Travel Quotes and the Books They Really Come From
Travel quotes travel too, and many of them pick up the wrong name along the way. Here are eleven of the best-loved lines about wandering, fr...
Carl Jara Sand Sculptures: The Ohio Artist Who Won’t Build Sandcastles
Carl Jara is one of the most decorated sand sculptors in the world, and he has one firm rule: no sandcastles. The Ohio artist carves faces t...
Walter Chang’s Travel Photos: 3 Years and 60 Countries Around the World
Walter Chang quit his job in 2011 and set off around the world. Three years and 60 countries later he condensed the journey into We Call Thi...
Singafive: Marie and Haakon’s High-Five Singapore Travel Video
One high-five, then a jump cut to a new place, then another high-five: Marie and Haakon’s holiday video Singafive strings their trip to Sin...
James Doran-Webb’s Driftwood Animals: Life-Size Horses and Dragons
A horse rears out of a river pool, every muscle and tendon traced in sun-bleached wood. James Doran-Webb’s life-size animals are built from...
19 DIY Travel Projects: Map Crafts, Keepsakes and Packing Organisers
Old maps, leftover coins and a drawer of travel souvenirs make some of the best craft material there is. These 19 DIY travel projects, firs...
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Sew Wanderlust: Teresa Lim’s Embroidered Travel Diary
Instead of snapping a photo and moving on, designer Teresa Lim sits down at a viewpoint, takes out an embroidery hoop and stitches the scene...
Roads Less Travelled: Andy Lee’s Dark Roads in Iceland and the UK
“There was nowhere to go but everywhere.” Andy Lee opens his series Roads Less Travelled with that line from Jack Kerouac, and the photogra...
HYPEUROTRIP: Piotr Wancerz's Two-Minute Time-Lapse Road Trip Across Europe
Kraków, Prague, Venice, the Swiss Alps, Barcelona, Paris, Amsterdam and Berlin, all in two minutes. HYPEUROTRIP, shot and edited in July 20...
Elizabeth Gadd’s Landscape Self-Portraits and the Red Dress Series
A small figure in a red dress stands beneath a huge waterfall, and the eye goes to the colour first, then to the size of the falling water. ...
Ed Fairburn's Map Portraits: Faces Drawn on Old Maps and Charts
British artist Ed Fairburn draws faces on maps. Using ink, pencil and paint on old paper maps and charts, he lets roads, rivers, coastlines...
Pebble Mosaic Paths: Garden Designs and the Ancient Greek Art Behind Them
Pebble mosaic paths turn a garden walk into a picture. Smooth stones in dark and light shades are packed together to form leaves, circles a...