Between June and August, I spent five weeks teaching and capturing marketing imagery for Smithsonian Student Travel and Putney Student Travel followed by two weeks of travel with my partner. It has been an incredible summer filled with so many opportunities to find and capture interesting imagery. As I’ve started to look through the thousands of images that I captured, I wanted to share a small selection here on my blog.
While the goal of most of my images this summer was very specific—to tell the story of students traveling abroad in a way that will help sell programs, in the moments between capturing that exciting client work, I was able to find moments to shoot for myself.
What I love most about traveling is the opportunity to let go of some of the rigidity that comes with existing and photographing in a more familiar environment. As I’ve been going through my images, I see myself shooting with much more fluidity which is something that I hope to incorporate into my practice more broadly.
Over the last year, I’ve been learning and studying the art of pairing and sequencing images. As an extension of that study, bookmaking has become an essential part of my practice. And while this blog and a book certainly aren’t the same formats, I wanted to use this collection of images as an opportunity to practice pairing and sequencing images.
My hope is that these images tell a story of sorts, but more importantly, evoke the way traveling throughout Europe this summer made me feel. A brush with the unfamiliar, mass tourism, and awe-inspiring beauty all together all at once. Take a look!