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“Good travel writing goes beyond merely describing a place; it digs deep and tells you how the place transformed the writer, and what it means...
Amira Al-Sharif is an international, award-winning photojournalist with many international assignments (e.g. National Geographic, Washington Post, Guardian, UNICEF, UNHCR, UNDP, Oxfam), photo exhibitions and media...
“My first camera was a 21st birthday present from my father. Sometimes presents can be things that you don’t really like or want but I...
Fatemeh Behboudi b.1985 Tehran, Iran, is a photojournalist and documentary photographer. Her photography career bagan in 2007. She has since worked for several Iranian news...
“Wandering through a pristine forest, breathing pure air on top of a snow-capped mountain, swimming in the world’s deepest freshwater lake… Travel is the permission...
“When you’re on the road you see so many things you didn’t expect: you meet people you never expected to meet, and experience moments so...
“Travel is a space inscribed with the self and culture of a people.” Aswin Prasanth is a research scholar in English at Amrita School of...
“We change the world story by story. Stories create empathy. Empathy changes the world.” Molly Murray is a writer, Creative Flow Coach and RTT Practitioner...
“In travel I discover new versions of myself; in writing about it, those selves are interweaved.” Michelle Alipao Chikaonda (she/her/hers) is a nonfiction writer from...
“Travel gave me the courage to write; feminism, the courage to look differently.” Kristin Winet is a writer and teacher who lives in the Sonoran...
“Geographical mobility is fantastic, and I would love to do it often, but it’s the imagination – the power to conjure and feel places without...
“My Navajo name means journey to bring out gifts. That is my goal when I’m travelling.” “Leslie Hsu Oh is one of the most innovative...
“Travelling is inextricable from living, grieving, reading, teaching, and so many other things; not forcing the separation of these experiences increases their potency and poignancy.”...
“We can travel by air, foot, land, water, heart. Sometimes we travel by closing our eyes.” Aimee Morales is a freelance writer, editor, and writers’...
Flash is discipline and generosity, it is to abide by rigid formal rule, and within these bounds, to give one’s absolute best, each word weighed,...
“Folks of color are the most traveled people on the planet; every time we leave our houses, we travel.” Faith Adiele founded the USA’s first...
“The best fiction surprises not only the reader but first and foremost the writer herself. Travel enhances this ability and takes me farther into the...
“The most powerful travel writing is not so much the art of empirical description as that of the translation of the individual experience into the...
“Travel allows me to see the world through a different lens, to learn and grow to appreciate the beauty in differences.” I am a traveler,...
“Travel is for me a spiritual experience, an opportunity to liberate myself from the person I’m expected to be at home. My outlook shifts, granting...
“Travel writing is all about people, places, and beyond: a world without boundaries. As in all forms of writing, it must aspire to wear the...
“Travel writing is about all kinds of things. Sometimes it’s about you and your experience of the world; other times it’s about being a witness...
“I first met extreme adventures as a young boy on the pages of Thor Heyerdahl’s Kon Tiki Expedition – adventures I’m yet to live, but...
“When we travel, we make other places present. When we write about travelling, we make ourselves present.” Sarge’s background in non-fiction is rooted in his...
“While not all of us may spend our lives travelling around the world, and some of us may not even leave the corners of our...
“When I read, I journey far. Travel writing, whether describing the trek to Everest, or a different way to go home, takes me further with...
“I’m excited to reinvigorate the genre, to turn it on its head and take it out of its own comfort zone. By showcasing voices that...
“Travel photography has the opportunity to prick our senses and stimulate thoughts, yet the opposite is more common. The travel industry promotes images that help...
“Panorama has a dual purpose: to reconstruct literary travel writing and travel photography, one story and image at a time; and to be a publication...