People & PLACES that challenge the status quo

Photographs and stories carry the innate power to bring people together—crossing foreign borders, language, religion, and political constructs.

In a world of glossified social media, our project exists to earnestly document and capture the cultural depth that extends beyond mainstream travel.

We look at travel within a few key themes:

Since 2014, we’ve covered 23 countries and 4 continents over a total travel span of 12 months. Extended travel can be arduous, and so our project remains open-ended to support our preference of slow and virtuous travel.

Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno.

2015 — 2017

Contrateur is:

Contrateur is not:

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Taylor Pemberton

Reluctant press and other words:

BBC Quartz DAZED

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