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P. Burgos Street, Makati, Manila
The street has one of those mad people who sometimes shouts incoherently. She’s an old woman. More ancient than her years. Some of the tourists...
Issue 15: Paris
Paris has long been the site of opulence, resistance, rebellion, and style. It has inspired great writing and writers, philosophy and philosophers. In this collection,...
Undercurrents
“We’re going to the seaside,” I tell my three-year-old, Jordan, who smiles, claps his pudgy hands as if he understands. A weekend to Hastings, that...
Homesick for Going
For years, the old man in apartment 3B of the mint-green building sat in front of a tumbleweed stack of newspapers at a wide wood...
Hastings Street
I have never liked this house much. For many years it felt like someone else’s house, not my own. It’s homely from the street, a painted...
An Hour at the Salon
Ash falls on your shoulders as you walk towards a salon for a manicure. You see the smoke. The air smells like your grandfather’s ashtray....
A Field on the Edge of England
In the hinterland beyond the last rows of houses, where the town peters out into farmland and straggling industrial sites, there is a place, wide...
Issue 14: Survival
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 14th edition, on the theme of ‘survival.’ Many thanks to all contributors and the editors...
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Under A Blood Red Sun
Outside, an injured, blood-red sun. You’ve never seen anything like it. You’ve never smelled this smell before: earth on fire. You stand on the narrow...
Cold Hearths
This is a remote part of the Scottish highlands — an abandoned township two miles from the nearest scrap of civilisation, a seldom-used road. It’s...
Walking to Pho in Hanoi
The unassuming pho shop in question sits just down the road, about 150 paces from my Hanoi apartment. I walk up my green-canopied alley and...
I Walk in the Dark Because the British AI Lady Told Me So
The bug-eyed black goldfish, Sukoshi (which means “little-bit” in Japanese) wiggles his pretty lacy tail goodbye as I sneak out the front door of my...
Issue 13: Fire
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 13th edition, on the theme of ‘fire.’ Fire: /ˈfʌɪə/ origin: Old English fȳr (noun), fȳrian...
To the Señora on the First Floor
You are the oldest señora in our building. I first noticed you during the earthquake that took place three months after I arrived in Mexico...
My Wilderness Refuge in the City
For many years I’ve lived on a bluff with a wilderness in my backyard. However, I don’t live in some remote area but in Anchorage,...
L.A. Cinemas: The City’s Real Houses of Worship
You’re here, and it’s a party but you feel like you’re stepping into a cathedral, and the crowded bar glows like an altar. L.A. worships...
Flipbook Corn
Outside the window an endless ocean of tall green cornstalks stretched for miles alongside the highway. The perfectly aligned rows at 70 miles per hour...
Departure Point
Every river seems to have a place like this; somewhere small boats go to die. The rotting fibreglass carcasses of forgotten pleasure craft and Sunday...
Dry Land Fishing
A couple carrying rough bags are walking down the railroad tracks in front of my house in Jeremiah, Kentucky. Thin and young, they are dressed...
The Glass Flock
Sometimes the voice from the heavens isn’t what you’d expected. The sound of flapping wings draws my eyes upward as I walk toward the old...
Issue 12: Cities
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 12th edition. In this issue, we present work on the theme of ‘cities,’ whether in...
It Can Be Beautiful for Everyone
Near the 405 overpass, lined with plastic dome tents, rusting grocery carts, and litter, a topless woman stands alone in the middle of the street....
Coastal Observations in Three Parts
I pass my neighbours’ houses on my way to the beach. Quiet, nearly everyone at work or school. A cardinal cheeps as he flies off...
Issue 11: Ecology
Welcome to Panorama’s 11th edition. In this issue we turn our attention to ecology—from the word’s earliest roots to present-day ecologies which span people, organisms,...
I Crave New York City
I crave not necessarily the New York City most New Yorkers love. When I am gone, I do not miss the bars, clubs, or crowds....
Down the Road
Welcome to Manchester! You! Yes, you! Alright? We’re starting in town and then heading south. The city centre has always been “town” to us. Here...
Issue 10: Intimacy
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s 10th edition. This issue focuses on INTIMACY in all its forms from a closeness and...
Sauntering Through The Holy Land
High above the sun pulses in the haze of an ash-grey sky. It’s a Thursday in late August 1998, nearing one o’clock in the afternoon,...
A Rose Hill Bench
My favourite spot to clear my mind has to be Rose Hill Cemetery. The cemetery is atop a small hill surrounded by an old familiar...
Issue 9: Borders
In this issue we have work from India, Nigeria, Philippines, Israel, Netherlands, UK, USA, Brazil, South Korea, Thailand, Germany, Italy, and more. In many ways...
Issue 8: Space
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s SPACE issue. From the very small to the enormity of our imaginations, essays grow from...
Issue 7: Dawn
Welcome to Panorama: The Journal of Travel, Place, and Nature’s DAWN issue. This bright, awakening, and challenging composition comprises a multitude of world views, places,...
Lisbon, Portugal
An old woman perches atop a fifth-storey window. Her elbows rest on the wooden frame, once painted—now chipping, the remnants of burgundy flaking off more...
São Paulo, Brazil
Waldemar Adelino da Silva was one of nearly 26,000 Brazilian soldiers, called expedicionários, who fought under the command of US forces in northern Italy during...
Cupertino, California
Homestead Road was not entirely unfamiliar to me when I first moved to the neighbourhood where it begins, at the cusp of two Silicon Valley...
Issue 6: War & Peace
Welcome to Panorama’s WAR & PEACE issue. This collection, months in the making, deeply explores the themes of war and peace, with a special emphasis...
Buenos Aires, Argentina
When I stepped off the plane in Buenos Aires, I smelt burnt tires, smog and a dash of sea salt. The immigration agent saw my...
Parks Highway, Denali National Park, Alaska
Once, I wrote an imaginary break-up note in part to my partner, but more to the place we live: “It’s not you, dear, it’s the...
Zagreb, Croatia
The street I live on has two blocks and one intersection. It is lined with American hackberry trees which turn verdant from spring through fall,...
Issue 5: Lost
Welcome to Panorama‘s long-awaited LOST, our fifth issue, which we are dedicating to the great traveller, Anthony Bourdain, whose recent passing has affected us all....
The Cotswold Way, England
I am standing barefoot on the soft green brow of Cleeve Hill, the highest point in Gloucestershire, holding up a faded cream-cotton parasol against the...
Adelaide
My husband’s friends lived east of the city, and whenever we visited, I was jealous of their space. Their living room was wide, the backyard...
Brooklyn, New York
About a year before I was born, my parents and six-year-old sister moved into a house in southern Brooklyn, in a neighbourhood that is often...
Issue 4: Seen
Perhaps more than any other time in recent history, how we see places and one another will determine what happens next to our human family....
Issue 3: Open
We present our panoramic vision of travel literature in our Spring ‘Open’ issue. A carefully curated collection of travel poetry, fiction, and memoir, the selections...
Streetview: San Diego
In 2014, I started my life over by returning to San Diego, the Californian city on the Pacific Ocean. It’s a city I have claimed...
Issue 2: Treasures
Welcome to Panorama’s second issue. Panorama exists not only to publish extraordinary, diverse travel literature and imagery, but to widen the definition of what travel...
Weekend Reading
Read all articles, essays, poems, and stories published on Panorama on the weekends in between issues.
Issue 1: Firsts
Welcome to Panorama‘s first issue. Our purpose is to shift the perspective of travel literature and imagery towards a more panoramic, modern worldview, and we...
Streetview: Mumbai
The gypsies had been there ever since I can remember. There were men, women, and children. The men were dark, surly, and unwashed, often bearded....