The Atlas of Beauty: Mihaela Noroc’s World of Portraits
A portrait can make the world feel both larger and more personal. You encounter someone whose surroundings may be unfamiliar, yet their expr...
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Travel Photography: Places, People & a Closer Look
Travel photographs can reveal a place at a scale we might otherwise miss: a pattern seen from above, the light along a street or a small moment in a busy day. Browse credited visual stories and learn about the people and places behind the images.
Let these collections encourage a closer look on your own travels. Consider the context of a photograph as well as its appearance, respect the people you photograph and leave time to experience a scene before deciding how to frame it.
Start with The Atlas of Beauty: Mihaela Noroc’s World of Portraits and Getting Paid to Travel: The Story Behind a Famous Dream Job.
Getting Paid to Travel: The Story Behind a Famous Dream Job
Three months of travel, luxury homes and a salary for sharing the experience: THIRDHOME’s 2017 campaign had a headline designed to stop the ...
City Panoramas From Above: How to Read an AirPano View
From the street, a city arrives in fragments: a facade, a crossing, a bridge and the next corner. From above, those fragments begin to conne...
Ringscapes: Peter Adams-Shawn’s Tiny Reflected Worlds
A wedding ring is usually photographed as a detail. In Peter Adams-Shawn's Ringscapes series, it becomes the setting for an entire scene...
100 World Kisses: Ignacio Lehmann’s Portraits of Affection
A kiss is brief, but the street around it keeps moving. In Ignacio Lehmann's 100 World Kisses project, that contrast becomes the heart o...
The Walker Behind Thailand’s Street View Landscapes
Street View often begins with a road, but many places worth seeing are beyond the reach of a camera car. In Thailand, photographs of triathl...
Chris Koch’s Travels: Curiosity, Independence and Good Company
Chris Koch's travel photographs are full of activity: a conversation, a temple visit, a new place to explore. They show someone interest...
Then-and-Now City Photos: How to Read a Changing Skyline
A familiar skyline can make history feel unexpectedly close. Find one building that survives across two photographs and it becomes a small a...
Aspen the Mountain Pup: Adventures at a Dog’s Own Pace
Aspen the golden retriever became a familiar face in outdoor photographs: beside clear water, among mountains and close to his human compani...
Drone Photography from 2015: A New Angle on Familiar Places
One of aerial photography's pleasures is how quickly it changes recognition. A familiar landmark becomes a shape; a road becomes a line;...
Ed Fairburn’s Map Portraits: Faces Hidden in Roads and Rivers
A map is designed to help you find a place. In Ed Fairburn's portraits, it can also lead you towards a face: a road becomes a line of sh...
Pascal Mannaerts’s Travel Portraits: People Within Their Places
Pascal Mannaerts's photographs invite the viewer to pause with a person rather than hurry towards the next landmark. Colour and setting ...
Lost in Wonder: Trina Merry’s Camouflaged Landmark Portraits
At first, the photograph appears to show a familiar landmark. Then the outline of a person begins to emerge, painted so that parts of the ar...
Benjamin Heath’s Travel Photographs: Finding a Quiet Moment
A person on a wide stretch of water can make a landscape feel both enormous and welcoming. A cloud-softened coastline can suggest a journey ...
Paperboyo’s Travel Photos: A Little Paper, a Big Idea
A familiar monument, a small piece of black paper and a very well-chosen position: that is enough to turn a travel photograph into a visual ...
Nick Pandev’s Travel Photography: Learning to Read the Light
A hillside on Santorini can feel like two different places in the space of an hour. As daylight fades, the sea loses detail and the windows ...
Takashi Yasui’s Japan: Finding Beauty in Everyday Scenes
A red umbrella against a pale surface. A figure framed by repeating gates. A flowering tree standing quietly beneath mist. Takashi Yasui’s p...
Hidenobu Suzuki’s Japan: Landscapes with a Painter’s Eye
Pink blossom fills one scene; layers of distant hills soften into another. A patchwork of rice terraces holds the last light between dark sl...
Travis Burke’s Adventure Van: A Road Trip with a Camera
A campervan can be transport, a place to sleep and a reason to stop somewhere for longer than you otherwise would. For photographer Travis B...
Christian Lindgren’s Travel Photos: Beyond the Country Count
A brightly decorated truck stands beside blue water in northern Pakistan. Elsewhere, buildings fill a hillside in a dense pattern of red. Ch...