A Guidebook For Small Travels - how to know very well your own little place in the world
I completed this collection of travel images in July 2025, but the images span a period of more than a decade, where each picture is part of a promise I made to myself. To stop hurrying. To take the slow route. To enjoy the journey with little focus on the destination. To stop anywhere I wanted and stay as long as I wanted without the requirement of urgency or expectation.
From the start, I envisioned the project as a book, and building it page-by-page was a daily ritual I already miss. Just as we remember the characters from a good book for days or weeks or sometimes our whole lives, these photographs are the ones I do not want to forget.
My work was inspired and influenced by some of my favorite creative people—their essays and examinations, their collections and collaborations.
This quote from Margaret Renkl (which I found in an interview she gave about her book, Late Migrations).
“I’m not in any way knocking grand traveling as a way of understanding the world, but I think there is an equal way of understanding the world by knowing very well your own little place in the world.” —Margaret Renkl
The bright, contrasty style of the photo collection, Accidentally Wes Anderson. From this ongoing travelogue of stunning and often quirky images, I began to see how the traditional postcard picture could be re-imaged as fine art.
The gorgeous book layout of Mark Forbes’ Collected Memories. From Mark’s book, I learned the value of visual space and rest, the subtly of a plain gray rectangle, the variety brought by single and double page spreads, the elegance of special touches like hand-drawn illustrations, the multiple and magical places for tucking in quotes and text, and the importance of book size and orientation. And how an entire book without a single portrait of a person could feel incredibly personal and intimate. And genuinely heartfelt.
If you’d like to see the completed book, you can view it here. The book was printed by MILK photo books in an edition 1/1.
