Thanks to Genevieve Fussell for pointing this exhibition out to all of us:
In 2009, the Irish photographer Paul Gaffney walked nearly five hundred miles through northern Spain along the Camino de Santiago. Inspired, in part, by his interest in Buddhist meditation, he set off, three years later, on a series of walking trips through rural Spain, Portugal, and France. Continue reading
Hebbal Lake, Bangalore, Karnataka
Kaziranga National Park, Assam
State bird of Karnataka
Bangalore, Karnataka
A view of the village of El Pardal, Sierra de Cazorla, Spain, 2013.
A composting toilet, Sierra Nevada, Spain, 2013.
Many contributors to our platform here, and its readers, have probably considered life off-grid. Most will experiment during their travels, but stop short of the full monty, which would mean divestiture or most/all possessions and hitting the road. Thanks to this photographer (and the New Yorker‘s far-reaching sampling) for giving us both candid and portrait-like views into some examples of “self-sufficient” lives:
In 2006, while he was backpacking in Australia, the French photographer Antoine Bruy signed up with an international exchange program for volunteers who want to work on organic farms.
Tadao Ando’s Monterrey house, by Edmund Sumner
Thanks to Phaidon for this story on the relationship between architecture and photography, or rather architects and photographers:
By the time Edmund Sumner was given his first camera, at the age of eight, he was already surrounded by, and wholly obsessed with, design. Edmund’s father was an interior designer whose clients included the likes of The Rolling Stones; his sister took up the paternal profession, while his brother became an architect.
Sumner, for his part, decided to photograph buildings for a living, and working with his wife, the architectural journalist Yuki Sumner, has specialised in architectural photography, with particular emphasis placed on contemporary Japanese design.
Munnar, Kerala
Ganeshgudi, Karnataka
Thattekad, Kerala
Bharatpur Bird Sanctuary, Rajasthan
Outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka
Outskirts of Bangalore, Karnataka
