New York Times’ Annual Voyages Issue Takes A Walkabout
by Richard D'AmbrosioSimien Mountains in Ethiopia. Photo: A.Davey
The Times Magazine’s annual Voyages Issue sets off by car, on foot and bicycle, providing a ground level view of exotic locales in Africa, Eastern Europe, Australia and South America. The Sept. 25 issue of the magazine includes:
Ethiopia: Andrea Frazzetta photographs the people, salt pillars and stark landscape of Ethiopia—including the region where Lucy, the famous hominid, was found—and rivets the eye with images of Erta Ale, an active volcano in Northeastern Ethiopia.
Albania: Joachim Ladefoged bikes through the Balkan Peninsula country, from the capital of Tirana to Vlora, the country’s second-largest port.
Australia: For 12 days and 1,700 miles, David Maurice Smith crossed the southern Australian Nullarbor Plain, to visit and photograph a widely unknown and undocumented region where the temperature can soar to 120 degrees or plummet to zero.
Finland: Kirsten Luce visits Lapland to find cloudberries, a tart, orange-gold berry, growing just one per stalk traditionally harvested in July and August. Luce documents the hunt, the foragers and the Lapland landscape, taking advantage of 20 hours of summer daylight.
Peru: Sebastián Liste travels to Peru, in the footsteps of his grandfather, to photograph what remains of the Inca Empire. The black and white haunting spread breathes new life to Cusco, the Sacred Valley, the ruins at Choquequirao and yes, ultimately, Machu Picchu.
Spain: Raymond Meeks makes the pilgrimage along the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, to the tomb of St. James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Meeks meets other pilgrims along the way, and captures the placid life of northern Spain.
Finland: Kirsten Luce visits Lapland to find cloudberries, a tart, orange-gold berry, growing just one per stalk traditionally harvested in July and August. Luce documents the hunt, the foragers and the Lapland landscape, taking advantage of 20 hours of summer daylight.
Peru: Sebastián Liste travels to Peru, in the footsteps of his grandfather, to photograph what remains of the Inca Empire. The black and white haunting spread breathes new life to Cusco, the Sacred Valley, the ruins at Choquequirao and yes, ultimately, Machu Picchu.
Spain: Raymond Meeks makes the pilgrimage along the 500-mile Camino de Santiago, to the tomb of St. James in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, Spain. Meeks meets other pilgrims along the way, and captures the placid life of northern Spain.
