While traveling, I have noticed that I can have an abundance of photographic discoveries during this time that people call vacation.
I do not denounce mass tourism, I observe it. In the end, it is our fundamental need to see and experience what is foreign to us. Travelers who leave their homeland and everyday surroundings often discover more than just exotic, unusual places or ways of life; they also reveal parts unknown and unfamiliar within themselves.
We all try avoiding tourists, and yet we regularly transform into them ourselves. Especially in these times, when every flight gives us a guilty conscience, when the floating giants dump millions of tourists onto the Venices of our earth, I want to show a more subtle picture of modern age travelers in my photographs. I have tried to discover the people behind the tourists – and they can, in fact, be found there – on vacation. Full of joy, love, and loneliness.
