This category brings together photographic works created during travels and regional explorations. The entries document observations of landscapes, cultural situations, social structures, and everyday encounters.
Additional content can be found primarily in Iceland and Landscape photography.
Blue Rocks is a fishing village on the Canadian east coast of Nova Scotia, known for its colorful fishing huts and tranquil atmosphere. The color photograph shows a popular documentary perspective – and in the infrared spectrum, a second, unusual interpretation of the same scene.
Traces of fishing on the coasts of Nova Scotia and Newfoundland – a world in transition that finds its counterparts in Europe.
Long Point Lighthouse, photographed on a rare calm day on Newfoundland's rugged northeast coast – with a cloud structure that defines the moment.
Street photographs from Cuba, taken in 1990 in Camagüey and Playa La Boca. Contemporary historical observations on everyday mobility between scarcity, creativity and community.
Hammershus on the Danish Baltic Sea island of Bornholm is the largest castle ruin in Northern Europe. The fortress was built in the early 13th century and was the seat of Danish kings for a long time. Only in aerial photographs do the impressive dimensions of the complex become apparent.
Arctic Henge – the “Stonehenge of Iceland” – is an unfinished stone circle monument in Raufarhöfn, the northernmost settlement in Iceland, just a few kilometers from the Arctic Circle.
Hammershus on the Danish island of Bornholm is the largest castle ruin in Northern Europe. Photographed in infrared light in black and white mode, the dark character of the medieval walls is perfectly captured.
30 inhabitants and millions of migratory birds – that is the small island of Mandø in the Danish Wadden Sea National Park. It is best reached by the Mandø bus, which is pulled by a tractor.
The cloud forest of Fanal on Madeira: a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999 and one of the most exciting destinations on the Portuguese island in the Atlantic.
Not built by human hands, but an original work of nature: This is Hvítserkur, the mighty basalt rock on the east coast of the Vatnsnes peninsula in the northwest of Iceland.
The old herring factory in Djúpavík on the east coast of the Icelandic Westfjords – a lost place, industrial museum and cultural center in one – is unusual in every respect.
A place like at the end of the world: This is Bakkagerði in the northeast of Iceland. The main attraction from April to August are thousands of puffins.