Journal

While sailing through the soundless Arctic panorama defined by millennia-old glaciers that rise like cold flames of ice from the clear, deep blue ocean erased all of the evidence of life beneath, a once in a lifetime sense of equanimity is felt. This feeling of isolation is what keeps Michael Schauer hooked, and why he keeps heading northward to the furthest corners of Earth.

For nearly six decades, Stockholm’s metro art installations have worked as a social experiment to its commuters and tourists. David Altrath guides us into the majestic tunnels and cave-like flux that forms one of the world’s most unique transit systems.

The details captured by Gustav Willeit give his images some verisimilitude, a sense of reality at first glance, but the sharp lines of symmetry also shape an almost fantasy-like version of the landscape.

Chumbe Island Coral Reef Sanctuary, located off the coast of Tanzania, harbors one of the most effectively managed reefs in the Western Indian Ocean. It is renowned for its rich coral diversity and locally rare species that call it home. Featured in our title Bon Voyage, we caught up with founder German Sibylle Riedmiller to find out why she made it her life mission to create this marine protected area.

A former lab scientist turned DJ and record label owner who is elevating electronic music in the Bay Area. DJ and co-founder of Dark Entries Records Josh Cheon sheds some light on today's electronic music scene in San Francisco.

In 1968, China embarked on a journey of reform that saw its once closed-off Communist society open-up to the rapidly globalizing world around it. This transformation of mentality, economics, and culture was set to reform the People's Republic of China into a modern superpower. Kris Provoost has been documenting the changing face of the futuristic city of Chongqing.