Led by Director and Chief Exec, Matthew Webb, over 120 editors, writers, and other contributors including Troy Onyango, Faith Adiele, Nicolas D. Sampson, Marie Baleo, Anne Louise Avery, Richard Ali, Robin Hemley, make Panorama possible.
...We aim to redefine who travels and what travel looks like, as well as to reshape the kinds of journeys–whether real or imagined–that can be narrated through words and images. To us, “travel” is not uniquely a set of experiences and encounters taking place far from home, but also emerges from being attentive to the extraordinary potential of the everyday. In the 21st century, we are all nomads of one kind or another. Panorama exists in order to reflect upon and strengthen that commonality.
...Panorama emphasises writing and the visual arts created with a deep intelligence, reconnecting us to the world. Thank you for considering submitting your work to our journal, and we look forward to reading your submission.
...Welcome to our new weekly Sunday Magazine. Each Sunday, we’ll bring you selected works from around the world, from travel poetry to fiction to photography. This week, we begin with our new series, Eaten, which pairs travel with gastronomy, in an essay by South African writer Ishay Govender-Ympa.
...Moon chasing cats, chasing
Shadows, chasing tail ends
of dreams into
satin-slippered cottongrass.
Raindrops, chasing teardrops,
chasing yellow eyes and field mice
round the corners of the dawn.
And down, the snow-blue,
cold-blue
honey-scented stars chase...
Welcome to Panorama‘s first Quarterly Issue. Our purpose is to shift the perspective of travel literature and imagery towards a more panoramic, modern worldview, and we have chosen the theme of firsts to take you on a revolutionary journey through travel-themed fiction, poetry, imagery, essays, and memoir.
...“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 every page. With Panorama, the map’s broader than ever before. It turns out everyone’s got a story to tell: from the mountain expeditioner to the woman who does your nails in a downtown salon. In Panorama, the destination is everywhere, in everyone. This is travel writing, for me: journeying beyond the realm of the unexpected, and breathing in new stories at every port of call.“
...“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 homes, one thing is certain: we all are moving and seeing things as they are. And this is why I believe travel writing is for all of us. Because the world is for all of us. It is indeed a wonder to move, whether near or far.”
...“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 editorial roles at a number of publications, including Esquire Magazine (Philippines), where he is editor-at-large, and the literary journal Luna, where he is longform editor and creative director. As a writer, he has published numerous articles and essays covering themes ranging from travel to short personal memoirs in magazines and anthologies. He has also written biographies and monographs covering Filipino luminaries, historical events and films.
He writes his novels, short stories, graphic storie...
“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 it imprinted on me the need to map our footprints. I take solace in the knowledge that each step always opens a door. Travel writing, for me, is to regain the freedom to see for myself, to drift beyond stifling prescriptions and escape the spectacle of prepackaged news about Africa. It is to welcome a new sense of seeing, to make baby steps to new imaginaries and peculiarities of places, spaces, and faces.”
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