What if traveling well begins not with knowing where we are going, but with learning how to arrive? Marine biologist Yacciry Ahuja Jiménez reflects on science, ancestral knowledge, and the invisible things we carry across borders.
This is the second story in an "A Bag of Stories" series exploring Ethiopian culture through everyday practices and knowledge. At Ensira Pottery Center in Addis Ababa, women shape the jebena amid children, kilns, fragile pots, and shared life.
This is the first story in a new "A Bag of Stories" series exploring Ethiopian culture through the practices, materials, places, and forms of knowledge that shape everyday life. We begin with food: with teff, and with the work that comes before injera.
Cultour was born from one man’s decision to make Brazil his home, then from a harder question: how can a travel company bring people closer to a place without turning that place into a product?
In places where public welfare is thin and formal employment scarce, millions of people build livelihoods one sale at a time. The informal economy should not be romanticized but neither should it be treated as disorder to be erased.
Walking through fifty years of Graciela Iturbide’s photographs in Uruapan, I found myself thinking less about photographic style than about something harder to preserve: the ability to encounter the world without already knowing what the picture should be.
Through Tecla, ceramic designer and cultural planner Camilla Garelli looks beyond the finished object, following the materials, gestures, relationships, and meanings that allow a thing to become part of a life.
A wedding may last one night, but the economy built around it extends across many lives. In San Miguel de Allende, Penzi Weddings & Events offers a way to examine what luxury can produce when beauty, labor, local knowledge, and responsibility are understood as parts of the same system.
Walking through Sebastião Salgado’s Amazônia, I entered as an admirer. I left still moved by its beauty, but carrying a harder question: when photography makes us care through wonder, what might that same beauty leave outside the frame?
