Travel Photography
Seen a lot already. Curious what is next.
I am grateful that I have already been able to travel across 5 of 7 continents. A few places are still missing, especially South America and, one day, Antarctica. This gallery overview brings together my photographic highlights from those five continents.
What excites me about travel photography is the exploring, getting to know new cultures, and everything that starts before the trip itself: routes, light, maps, spot lists, and the question of how a place might work in an image. That is also why I appreciate good location guides so much, especially when a local has taken the time to build something like that.
Once I am there, I love heading out properly: sometimes with travel companions who put up with my bad jokes and unreasonable hours, sometimes on my own and entirely at my own pace. I am happy to go the extra mile for a photograph, whether that means getting up early in New York, learning to dive, chartering a helicopter, or writing code so a drone flight can happen in the first place.
Behind almost every image, there is a specific memory for me.
Europe
Europe has been more of a constant than one big trip.
Europe is not one clearly defined travel chapter for me. It is something that keeps running alongside everything else. I have been in different countries and regions, often briefly, some more than once. That is exactly what makes Europe interesting to photograph: familiar places do not look the same every time.
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Africa
Few regions have shaped the way I photograph as much as Africa.
Africa started for me with a short stay in Cape Town to visit friends. In the same year, that turned into a longer trip through South Africa, and later a road trip through Namibia. The mix of open space, hard light, and the proximity to wildlife shaped the way I look at distance, timing, and image structure. A lot of pictures there do not work through small effects, but through calm, space, and the moment a scene suddenly falls into place.
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Asia
I saw Asia across several shorter, very different trips.
Shanghai, Beijing, Zhangjiajie, Bali, Java, and Thailand never felt like one uniform trip to me. They were different concentrations of city, landscape, everyday life, and movement. That is why Asia does not work for me through one single motif. It works more through layers, pace, and small breaks inside the frame.
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North America
North America has been there since early trips and long distances.
Right after school I spent a longer stretch on the US West Coast. Later came stays in New York, Washington, Hawaii, and a road trip through Western Canada. To me, North America still means roads, horizons, deliberately built places, and images with room inside them. That mix of movement, structure, and open space is probably what keeps pulling me back.
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Oceania
I saw Oceania on longer road trips through New Zealand and Australia.
Six weeks in New Zealand and another six in Australia, with a focus on the east coast, west coast, and the Red Centre: Oceania feels like the most open region in this travel section. There is more light, more air, and often more space between subjects. On longer road trips there, it often felt like images did not need to be chased too hard. They were already there once direction, weather, and timing lined up.
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