My Name is Sarah and I currently live in Sydney, Australia. Two years ago I decided to turn my photography passion from a hobby to a part time profession to balance out my corporate day-job and haven’t looked back. The first country I visited was Lebanon, my country of birth that I left at the age of 3. It was a life changing experience for me because not only was I discovering an amazing country full of history, contrasts and culture, I was also reconnecting with my ancestry. I felt a connection to the land and people that I have never felt as an adult and migrant in Australia. It cemented my feeling of being a global citizen and validated my lack of attachment to one place over another.
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My name is Guillaume Flandre, I’m 28 and I’m a web developer living in Paris. I first started shooting with a point and shoot camera during my travels, and began to be more and more interested in photography when I moved to New York 5 years ago. What I love about traveling is the getting-out-of-your-comfort-zone aspect of it. Being lost in unknown streets in a country where you don’t speak the language is one of the most exciting feelings there is! I believe my very first experience abroad was going to Barcelona with my parents. But the true experience that made me fall in love with traveling was traveling by myself for a couple of weeks in Lithuania back in 2006.
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My name is Hai. I’m 34 and I’m a freelance photographer from Australia and also the primary shooter for travel blog Notes of Nomads. I’m writing this to you from a quaint apartment in the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Although I always intended to go abroad at some point, the fire wasn't lit until I met my now wife and serial wander-luster, Jessica, and we started travelling the globe together. In the past, travel was something that I viewed purely as pleasure rather than business. But as we've come to travel more, we've also come to the realization that life is too short to not enjoy it. Combining our passion for travel and our careers was the next logical step in ensuring we didn't have to stop doing what we love.
Read MoreHAITI BY VANESSA RIGAUD
My name is Vanessa Rigaud. I am a travel occupational therapist by day, photographer and philanthropist by passion. I am currently living in Woodbridge, VA on a travel assignment for the next 3 months. I also co-own a jewelry business, Bisoux Jewelry, with my sister. My interest in photography was initially sparked out of a need. My sister and I had just started our jewelry business, in which all our proceeds are currently going towards our Haiti efforts, and we needed to take pictures of our inventory and had aspirations of creating a lookbook. We couldn't afford a photographer or anything at the time, and I had always been interested in the craft anyways, so I decided to buy a DSLR off of craigslist. It was love at first click =)
Read MoreIRELAND BY SIMON RUSSELL
Hi world travelers, I’m Simon Russell, professional photographer and explorer of moments in time. My eyes and mind are forever searching for light, color, and gesture; be it a human condition or one of nature. My motto is to always aim for the highest vantage point, to get the end of the road, to see in 360 degrees and to always stop, take a moment, and talk & listen to people. My trusty camera has been my companion for over 30 years and it always takes me on the most amazing adventures. I guess I’m really just intrigued by people and their lifestyles, by exotic landscapes and by the food (I’m a foodie), which I jokingly say is the “real” reason I travel.
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