Photo Journals
Escape to a wild landscape or peer around corners in a city’s backstreets. These visual diaries from international photographers show destinations in a different light. This is your window to the world.
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Photo JournalsKeeping It Alive: The Venetian Artisan Hammering Gold by Hand
In our photo journal series, Keeping it Alive, we meet the people preserving fragments of cultural heritage across the world. In Venice, a master craftsman with the Midas touch turns 24-carat gold into glittering foils that adorn monuments city-wide
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Photo JournalsKeeping it Alive: The Skirt Weavers of Kihnu Island
In our photo journal series Keeping it Alive, we meet the people preserving fragments of cultural heritage across the world. This week, we land on the tiny Baltic island of Kihnu, to visit the women weaving their life stories into colourful traditional skirts
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Photo JournalsUrban Jungle: Mexico City
On a trip to Mexico's capital, photographer Alia Wilhelm was taken by the city's vibrant colours and dualistic character. Her images capture the city's irreverent, technicolour hues
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Photo JournalsA Road Trip Through America's Southwest
Sarah Eshpeter evokes the scale and surreality of America's southwestern landscapes in her snapshots of Utah's curving red rocks and New Mexico's Persil-white sand dunes
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Photo JournalsIllustrious Majesty in Southeast Asia
Travelling through Southeast Asia with a film camera, photographer Jessica Sample captures the region's ancient temples, spiritual practices and arresting atmosphere
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Photo JournalsThe Land of Sunshine: New South Wales, Australia
Travelling along magnificent coastal stretches and unspoilt shores, photographer Matt Stone captures the enamel-blue waves and rich, sensual colours of the New South Wales coastline
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Photo JournalsThe Ethereal Mermen of Borneo
Far from the pygmy elephants and orangutans, everyday life in Borneo bustles as it plays out in the communities living beyond the island's lush interior. Picking her way along rickety wooden piers and down bustling boardwalks, one photographer captures the textures of a coastal town
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Photo JournalsIn Search of White Gold: Tracing the Salt Pans of North Dalmatia, Croatia
The salt marshes of Croatia feed a rich culinary offering, with “white gold” seasoning everything from the soil in ancient olive groves to the area's award-winning cheeses
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Photo JournalsDelays Possible: The Changing Face of Cambodia’s Capital
Phnom Penh’s residents live under an ever-changing skyline, as the city experiences transformative urban development. One photographer captures the impermanence of life in the permanently unfinished Cambodian city
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Photo JournalsKeeping it Alive: The Violin Restorer Making Antique Strings Sing
In our new photo journal series, Keeping it Alive, we meet the people preserving fragments of cultural heritage across the world. This week, we duck into a dusty London workshop to meet a master luthier repairing antique European violins
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Photo JournalsLife by the Bean: The Faces of Nicaragua’s Coffee Industry
One photographer explores Nicaragua’s coffee industry from bean to cup, narrating the story of our morning brew through colourful, evocative imagery
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Photo JournalsBittersweet Beauty: The Welsh Holiday Town Facing Rising Tides
Juxtaposing sweeping Welsh landscapes with intimate moments of everyday life, photographer Michael Ruane captures both the enticing beauty and the unsettling future of Fairbourne, the UK’s first climate-condemned town
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Photo JournalsCosta Smeralda: Chasing Sardinia’s Old-School Luxury
The exclusive enclave of Europe’s moneyed elite, Costa Smeralda pairs old-school luxury with an abundance of natural beauty.
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Photo JournalsOut of the Blue: The Ancient Craft of Indigo Dyeing
In southern India, an organic “seed to seam” service dyes threads and fabrics using naturally produced pigments to make one-of-a-kind artisan garments.