documentary travel photography

KSA FUEL GAUGE

If you want to understand what’s happening in Saudi Arabia now, don’t start from the renderings. Start from the governance: The Kingdom is deciding what creates real economic gravity—jobs, skills, housing, logistics, repeatable tourism demand—and what remains an expensive monument to ambition. For y

01 Jan 2026 ASIA TAIWAN creative nonfiction travel cultural journalism blog cultural reportage documentary travel photography human stories Independent travel writer Leica life on the road lived experiences memory and time people and places slow travel Street Photography travel photography visual storytelling

ORDERING FOOD IN ASIA

Eating in Asia teaches you that respect can be silent, and that trust — in the menu, in the cook, in the system — is often rewarded. You may not get exactly what you expected. But more often than not, you get exactly what you needed.

30 Dec 2025 HONG KONG creative nonfiction travel cultural journalism blog cultural reportage documentary travel photography human stories Independent travel writer Leica life on the road lived experiences memory and time people and places slow travel Street Photography travel photography visual storytelling

JIMMY LAI: SILENCE DESCENDING ON HK

There are moments when repression does not arrive with tanks or gunfire, but with paperwork, court dates, and the slow suffocation of words. Hong Kong

27 Dec 2025 LIFE BLOG ARCHIVE NIGERIA creative nonfiction travel cultural journalism blog cultural reportage documentary travel photography human stories Independent travel writer Leica life on the road lived experiences memory and time people and places slow travel Street Photography travel photography visual storytelling

ISIS AFTER THE CALIPHATE

Some public commentary framed the US operation in Northern Nigeria as a defence of Christians against religious persecution. Nigerian officials were quick to reject that framing—and rightly so. ISIS-linked violence in Nigeria does not follow a single religious line. Christians are targeted. Muslims

25 Dec 2025 CAMBODIA THAILAND creative nonfiction travel cultural journalism blog cultural reportage documentary travel photography human stories Independent travel writer Leica life on the road lived experiences memory and time people and places slow travel Street Photography travel photography visual storytelling

SOUTHEAST ASIA BORDER WAR

Thailand’s latest escalation with Cambodia has been framed, from Bangkok, as something more precise than a border war : a campaign against the scam industry