Agnes spent her whole life dreaming of traveling to my homeland. It wasn’t until she moved to London that she really started exploring her ancestry. During her first trip there, her approach to photography was a mixture of feelings. She worked on shooting empty spaces to show quietness where there is not, balancing between talking to people to ask them for a portrait and shooting candidly.
Read MoreA GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE WITH ANNA PETROW
For Anna, being a photographer adds a whole new dimension to the experience of being a traveler. When your eye is constantly searching for unique scenes to make a photograph, it means you’re constantly paying attention to the details. For her, those little things often end up being favorite memories from a destination– crates of oranges piled up in a medina in Marrakech, a cute little kid peaking out from behind a bright gate in Mexico… it’s always the details that make the biggest impression.
Read MoreEXPLORING NORTHERN SUDAN WITH LEYLAND CECCO
My name is Leyland Cecco, and I’m a freelance journalist based in Toronto. My litmus test for travelling is: if you tell people where you’re going, and their response is ‘Why would you ever go there?’, then it’s going to be a great trip. Sudan can be tricky to travel in, because travel permits are required anywhere outside of Khartoum. The north is a fairly well-trodden tourist path (although I use the term ‘well-trodden’ liberally - the region generally gets very few tourists). The most important thing to remember when travelling in the region: be patient. Things will happen eventually, so you might as well drink a ginger-spiced coffee while you wait.
Read MoreJOURNEY THROUGH MOROCCO BY JANIS ROSEANNE
Hello! My name is Janis. After our first two years living in Asia, my husband and I had seen a lot of the continent. We were keen to go somewhere totally different and Morocco seemed to fit the bill. We went to Chefchaouen (famous for its blue Medina!), Fez, Merzouga (Sahara Desert) Todra and Dades Gorge, Marrakesh, and Essaouira. This way a really interesting trip photography-wise because we found out very quickly that most people in Morocco really do not like having their photo taken. We, of course tried to be very respectful of that.
Read MoreTRAVELING SOUTH AMERICA SOLO BY JENNIFER EMERLING
I'm a visual storyteller based in Los Angeles, specializing in travel and editorial photography. Because I travel for the connection from my soul to the earth to the people, I am always seeking to capture and understand the identity of the region I’m visiting in hopes to become a more well-rounded storyteller, and person. Traveling allows me the opportunity to leave my comfort zone and expand my worldview -- it humbles me, challenges me, exhilarates me, surprises me, and evolves my artistic spirit. his trip marks my third journey to the continent and was planned around having three key experiences: traversing the Altiplano lakes & high elevation geysers in the Atacama Desert in Chile (the world's driest desert), seeing the Salar De Uyuni in Bolivia covered with water (which turns it into a mirror), and exploring Machu Picchu in Peru on my 30th birthday.
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