Lisbon on film

One of my absolute favourite things is feasting my eyes on beautiful travel photography - not the sort of typical ‘spectacular’ imagery that fills the pages of things like National Geographic, but the kind of close-your-eyes-and-youre-there imagery, the truly evocative stuff that transports you to sun drenched piazzas and the smell of lemon groves. Conde Nast Traveller, of course, is incomparably beautiful - their pages juxatopose places and spaces, with food, portraits and all manner of wonderful things, with beautiful light filled photography but a hidden gem (I guess not so much if you’re a regular flyer) is the Easyjet magazine - such beautiful photography!

Anyway, on that note - Lisbon lends itself so well to being photographed on film - the colour, the textures, the light. It’s a city that’s all about it’s exteriors (rather than it’s interiors, unlike say Copenhagen) so on a recent-ish trip there I lugged around my much loved Nikon F100 and photographed it all on Kodak Portra. My own tribute to some of that great travel photography. I hope you can smell the sunlight in these.

Publishing this, and putting it out into the universe, is perhaps my sneaky way of hoping that one day I get commissioned to tell these kind of stories.