AdventureThe Island That Never Slept: Two Weeks Around Iceland's Ring Road
In February, photographers come to Iceland to chase the dark. In June, you come to escape it. For two weeks this June I drove the Ring Road clockwise from …
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StoryThe Farthest Frame: 3.65 Kilometres Over Svínafellsjökull
This is the story of the photograph that now fronts the Bird Perspective gallery, and of the twenty-one minutes of flying it took to bring it home.
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AdventureBetween Two Continents: Diving the Silfra Fissure
Day four of the Ring Road loop was the one day the trip went underwater. Silfra is a flooded crack in Þingvellir National Park where the North American and …
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AdventureSugar, Salt and Seven Colours: Ten Days on Mauritius
Mauritius sells itself as a honeymoon brochure, and for the first hour off the plane it obliges: sugarcane to the horizon, sega music on the car radio, a lagoon …
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StoryThe Island That Smells of Cloves: A Morning on a Zanzibar Spice Farm
Three days after the safari loop closed in Nairobi, the dust of five parks still in my camera bags, I traded savanna for ocean and flew out to Zanzibar. Most …
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StoryAn Afternoon with the Carpenter of Kiwengwa
Some sessions you plan for weeks. This one I didn’t plan at all — it simply happened, one warm October afternoon on the beach at Kiwengwa, on …
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AdventureTwo Countries, Five Parks: A Great Rift Safari from Nairobi
In October 2017 we set out from Nairobi on a two-week loop across two countries and five great parks of the East African Rift — Nakuru, the Masai Mara, the …
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StoryThe Road That Drowns Twice a Day: A Cultural Expedition to Uzi Island
There is a road in Zanzibar that the Indian Ocean erases twice a day. It runs south from Unguja Ukuu through a kilometre of mangrove forest — a causeway of …
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