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Tourism photography looks at the world with preconceived notions about unfamiliar subjects. It’s imagery fictionalizes person, place or thing through storytelling. But this we know. We automatically scrutinize. Photography - a content rich chapter in the book of humans - carries a heavy weight, burdened both with an empathic eye tied to an inevitable prejudicial bent.

Tourism photography pictures a world apart from the ordinary. A human dwarfed by a giant sequoia, or the minuscule figure visualized as a mere dot poised atop a panoramic landscape, mountainous terrain or sand dunes without edge. It provides escapism’s framework, a visual reprieve from the mundane.

snapshots collect like curios discarded to memory