What We Carry When We Leave
Traveling light has little to do with owning less. It begins with a more uncomfortable question: how much of what we carry is necessary, and how much is simply our fear of being unprepared?
Bags, books, maps, vessels, tools, and keepsakes: objects that move with people and carry use, memory, work, and belonging across borders.
Editorial note: Work Worth Carrying
Traveling light has little to do with owning less. It begins with a more uncomfortable question: how much of what we carry is necessary, and how much is simply our fear of being unprepared?
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.
AFAR took its name from a region of salt, heat, distance, and human endurance. Years later, the name still asks a question: what does it mean to carry a place with you?
AFAR and KEL12 begin a new collaboration built around thoughtful travel, Ethiopian craft, and objects made to stay on the road.
Objects travel with us in silence. They hold tickets, dust, stains, repairs, departures, returns, and the private memory of lives in motion.
The new raffia collection is coming in Summer 2026. Explore the lookbook now and join our newsletter for first access when the bags become available.