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Table of contents

- 16NEVER MIND THE WEATHER

Glarus, Switzerland

Andre Stummer

@andrestummer

- 26ON THE GOLDEN CLIFF

Cape Kiwanda - Pacific City, Oregon

Daniel Chaney @danielchaney

- 34A DUTCH SAFARI

Hoge Veluwe National Park - Gelderland, The Netherlands

Bastiaan Sizoo @bastiaansizoo

- 44PICTURE PERFECT

Blyde River Canyon - Mpumalanga, South Africa

Fran Venter @franventer

- 52LAND OF SMILES

Bangkok, Thailand

Chanipol Kusolcharttum @rockkhound

- 62FOREVER CHANGING CAPETOWN

Cape Town, South Africa

Alexander Kibble @diaryofalex

- 72OFF THE RADAR

Madeira Islands, Portugal

Ollie Nordh @ollienordh

- 82VISUAL OUTBURST

Bangalore, India

Curro de la Villa @ekkieboy

- 90METROPOLIS IN THE MAKING

Berat, Albania

Jussi Ulkuniemi @skwii

- 100CINEMATIC SCENERY

South Island, New Zealand

Victor Bergstedt @vibesart

- 112REUNITED IN LOFOTEN

Kvalvika Beach- Lofoten, Norway

Jullien Pelletier @buchowski

- 120A TRIP OF EXTREMES

Israel, Jordan & Palestine

Joost Bastmeijer @joostbastmeijer

- 128ROAMING THE ALPS

The Bavarian Alps, Germany & Austria Lawrence Michael Thomas @Lmt_

- 138A PHOTOGENIC PLAYGROUND

Big Sur - California, USA Ryan Hill @ryanmcmahill

- 148SHARED HAPPINESS

The Faroe Islands Michiel Pieters @michielpieters

- 158MEANDERING BEAUTY

IJssel River, The Netherlands Bob Sizoo @bobsizoo

- 166EXPLORING & CAPTURING

Quatren, Switzerland

Mohamed Abdulle @mabdulle

- 174A TURNING POINT

Eikesdalsvatnet - Nesset, Norway Najim Jansen @dailyroutine__

- 186SHIFTING COLORS

Antelope Canyon, Arizona Julian Castaneda @meetjulian

- 196COUNTRY OF CONTRASTS

Galápagos Islands & Equador Roel Ruijs @roelservice

- 206THE DOLOMITES DELIVER

The Dolomites Tristan Bogaard @tristanbogaard

- 214AN ENLIGHTENED CITY

Sydney, Australia

Ramon Gilbert Klomp @ramongilbertklomp

- 226THE CLIFF

Southern Island, Iceland Stian Servoss @Servoss

- 236CHASING SUNRISE

Achill Island, Ireland

Willem Sizoo @willemsizoo

- 244A MAGICAL SKYEFALL

Isle of Skye, Scotland Pie Aerts @pie_aerts

Klöntalersee The Klöntalersee, a natural lake in the canton of Glarus, was created by a landslide. It may be reached by bus or car. At an elevation of 848m, it covers an area of about 3.3km2. In the morning it is most beautiful, because the water is very still. There are 3 large waterfalls on the lake.

Andre Stummer @andrestummer

NEVER MIND

THE WEATHER

LOCATION Glarus, Switserland COORDINATES 47.024198, 8.947174

PHOTOGRAPHER Andre Stummer, Arth Goldau, Switzerland @andrestummer

The Lötschental The Lötschental in the Upper Valais is the largest northern tributary of the Rhone in Switzerland. Located in the Jungfrau-AletschBietschhorn area of Bernese Alps, it is a UNESCO World Heritage protected site. About 27 kilometers long, it comprises 150 square kilometers. The glaciers of the Lötschental cover 13.7 percent of the area. Especially in spring, it is very interesting to explore the glacier caves.

“ I love to go back to the same areas. It doesn’t matter if it’s raining, snowing or if the sun shines - the Swiss alps always look different. ”

– Andre Stummer

Daniel Chaney @danielchaney

ON THE GOLDEN CLIFF

LOCATION Cape Kiwanda - Pacific City, Oregon, USA COORDINATES 45.217801, -123.979281

PHOTOGRAPHER Daniel Chaney, Nashville, USA @danielchaney

“Cape Kiwanda is the most beautiful place I have ever visited. It has it all,” says American photographer Daniel Chaney. “Last year, two of my best friends and I piled into a Prius and took a road trip from Nashville to Vancouver, California.” They had one sole purpose: an epic adventure. “It had been a dream of ours for a while, and when summer hit, we knew we had to hit the road.”

“It wasn’t until I spent the evening climbing the rock quarries and chasing the sunset that I fully grasped the beauty,” explains Daniel. They went hiking with a couple of locals, just before sunset. “We ended the day sitting on the golden cliff. We watched the disappearing sun and listened to the waves that crashed against the rocky shore. It was the most memorable moment of the trip.”

“ It wasn’t until I spent the evening climbing the rock quarries and chasing the sunset that I fully grasped the beauty. ”

– Daniel Chaney

Bastiaan Sizoo is a content creator living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Together with his younger brothers, he’s a member of the photography formation “The Sizoo Brothers”. The three of them are very active as so-called “social influencers” on Instagram. “I love to connect with people, whether it is online or in person. It’s the best feeling,” Bastiaan says. Although he shoots a lot, he doesn’t want to become a professional photographer: “in contrast to my brothers, I will always keep photographing in conjunction with my main focus, which is to learn as much about this world as possible. Photography allows me to share my experiences with my friends – and on larger scale with the world.”

Leap of faith

When searching for the perfect spot for that perfect shot, the new photographer often takes a leap of faith. A figurative leap, because that perfect spot is sometimes located on the tallest building of a city, or on a single, tiny rock above an eerie, deep canyon. These vertigo-inducing pictures are hard to make, but they always evoke on lots of startled reactions. This shot was taken by Alexander Kibble, during his Kasteelspoort hike towards Cape Town’s Table Mountain top. “Even though the wind was blowing hard that day,” Alexander says, “this view atop the Twelve Apostles was definitely worth it.” Not every vertigoinducing picture is worth the risk, though - it wouldn’t be the first time that a thrill-seeking “Outlaw Instagrammer” could die during a “rooftopping” attempt.

“ It always blows my mind seeing how big it is. I highly recommend going there on your own, there is nothing else like it in the world. ”

– Fran Venter

Pretoria-based Fran Venter likes to stay off the beaten paths. “I grew up in a society where everybody had to go to school, go to university, and become a lawyer, accountant, engineer. And then marry and settle down. It just seemed ridiculous and small-minded to me. It’s strange to me that in our culture, people are expected to decide who they want to be for the rest of their lives while they're still so young. It’s such a huge decision,” Fran says. That’s why he went on to study music, and in that same period he taught himself to take pictures. He then gathered a growing follower count on Instagram and dreamt of becoming a travel photographer. Fran: “I eventually dropped out of music school to pursue my photography career. Traveling and taking pictures has been my life ever since.”

Chanipol Kusolcharttum @rockkhound

LAND OF SMILES

LOCATION Bangkok, Thailand COORDINATES 13.739285, 100.516780

PHOTOGRAPHER Chanipol Kusolcharttum, Bangkok, Thailand @rockkhound

“Everywhere I go, I always have my camera with me,” says Bangkok-based Chanipol Kusolcharttum. He loves his work as a professional traveller, but he always comes back home to his Thai hometown. “I like to get out there, because I want to be a part of the city. I want to see it, understand it, and translate that to my photos. Because of photography I have found and experienced

new things in the place that I thought I knew so well. When people depart, when they get on a plane, they always think of traveling to somewhere else,” says Chanipol. “For me, the destination doesn’t matter. I’d like to think that we’re on a ‘life journey,’ every day. That’s why my pictures here are pictures of ordinary, yet important people from Bangkok. People that embark on their ‘life journey, every day.’”

VISUAL OUTBURST

LOCATION Bangalore, India COORDINATES 12.973365, 77.592478

PHOTOGRAPHER Curro de la Villa, Amsterdam, The Netherlands @ekkieboy

Even though Curro travels a lot through both Europe and America, his trip to India was his first encounter with the Asian continent. “And it was truly an adventure,” he says.

“I was there for my work, I had to dive into the Indian youth culture and discover as much as possible about the different aspects of life in one of the major cities of the country, Bangalore. I can definitely identify an overall feeling of chaos across the whole journey.

The insane traffic, the heat, the noise, the food and of course the visual explosion of colors and shapes of the Indian streets... two weeks hardly gave us enough time to scratch the surface of the city, although we definitely tried. We stayed in absurdly fancy hotels. We went to house parties, took night walks through the biggest slum of Mumbai and made motorbike rides along dusty roads.”

‘@ekkieboy’, also known as Curro de la Villa, is a designer and photographer who was born in a very small village in the Southern part of Spain. He left that region about 10 years ago, and has been traveling the world ever since. Although he’s been hopping between the States and The Netherlands, he's recently visited Morocco, Slovenia, Germany and Austria. Curro is currently living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

 Chickpet Market, Bangalore

A local in the narrow streets of the Chickpet market.

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“ Two weeks hardly gave us enough time to scratch the surface of the city, although we definitely tried. ”

– Curro de la Villa

“Basically, there’s no better way to live than to use your skills to interact with, and hopefully affect, the people around you,” says Jussi Ulkuniemi. The Finnish photographer doesn’t wish to reach people only through his photography; he’s also a dancer. “I live off creativity and freedom. I’m passionate about the whole range of human emotions, the ugly and beautiful, but mostly the thin line between. I depart to gain perspective.

I don’t travel far to escape anything; it’s easier to understand what’s important when you keep experiencing the world all around you.”

Photographer Pie Aerts and his friend Hans Roozekrans visited Skye in the first two weeks of November, when the people of the small and remote island on Scotland’s West Coast were preparing for winter lockdown. “I’d been hearing many things about Scottish weather, especially in fall season, but shiny, calm and sunny hadn't been any of them,” says Pie. “Tourists had fled with the summer sun and sea mist covered the land in shadows. What’s left are deserted roads, curling through rough landscapes dotted with thousands

of sheep.” “On Skye, each morning was a gift,” Pie continues. “Every time we opened the door of our campervan, we would find ourselves deserted under a perfect blue Scottish sky, looking out at spectacular cliffs or lush green valleys. The landscapes are so diverse, and the autumn colors breathtaking. With names like The Fairy Pools, The Quiraing, The Fairy Bridge, Dunvegan Castle and The Old Man of Storr written on Skye’s map, you can imagine that on this little island, fairytales do come true.”

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First printed in October 2016

ISBN 978 90 8989 704 6 NUR 653

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Curated by The Sizoo Brothers @thesizoobrothers on Instagram

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Special thanks to Timothy Van Laar & Lucas Ribeiro Hashtag The World, Amsterdam hashtagtheworld.com @hashtagtheworld on Facebook and Instagram and @hashtaggedworld on Twitter