Travel photography as therapy

Behind-the-scenes stories and advice. Photobook

Overview

“Travel photography as therapy” is a book of behind-the-scenes stories and advice from 150 photos. Their author is an outdoor journalist, editor, and writer, and an amateur photographer like you. He made it during 20 years of his travels in Europe, Asia, and North America (2004–2024).

With the book, he sets an example of how you can engage in real, non-AI-creativity using only your smartphone or camera. Travel photography, a simple and popular genre, is best suited for this. Besides, it’s a free self-therapy session you can take not leaving your home. By telling stories in writing, we reflect on life’s moments and as if we are traveling through them once more. This helps us answer our personal questions and improve ourselves. The book also contains advice on how to make good street photos. The author shares the expertise he got while interviewing 20+ masters and advanced amateurs of the close street photography genre, which he collected in his other work.

This book would be suitable for beginner travel photographers, but especially for those who don’t do any creation. You can freely copy the author’s idea and make your similar book. It’s also a unique gift for friends on absolutely any occasion.

Author

Ivan Kuznetsov — outdoor journalist, editor and writer, co-founder of Panoramica creative studio in the Italian Alps.

He comes from a family of amateur photographers and has been taking pictures since 2004, when his father gifted him an analog “Olympus Mju II” camera before he went to the United States for three months on the “Work & Travel USA” program. He started doing travel photography more seriously in 2017 after he made his first interviews with masters of street photography for Bird In Flight photo magazine, and bought his first smartphone at the same time.

As a journalist and editor, he is an author of 1,000 publications, including 200+ interviews with various famous and local people on travel, outdoor recreation, nature, creativity, and other related topics for leading media and blogs and his other books. Thanks to this, he traveled around the world, from Alaska to New Zealand and from Patagonia to the Russian Far East, not leaving his working desk. In reality he is actively travels in his home regions, Italy and Finland, and writes guides and long reads about them with 200+ such publications.

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Highlights

• 150+ photographs
• 20 years of traveling (2004–2024)
• People-focused
• Advice

Contents

Author
Map
Infographics
Foreword by expert
Introduction
1. Olimpus Mju II
2. Samsung Gigimax S500
3. Canon PowerShot S5 SI
4. Canon PowerShot SX 400 IS
5. iPhone SE: 1st generation
6. iPhone SE: 2nd generation
Conclusion
Locations list
Sources
Acknowledgements
Catalog

Sample photos

Only the captions are shown here so far. Each photograph in the book is accompanied by a short one-page story.

Chinese tourists take pictures on Red Square in Moscow, Russia, in May 2018. Ivan Kuznetsov / Panoramica
Participants of Creative hikes in the Pale di San Martino mountains in the Dolomites, Italy, in September 2018. Ivan Kuznetsov / Panoramica
A man falls on the ice at an ice rink in Moscow, Russia, in January 2019. Ivan Kuznetsov / Panoramica
Irina Kudres at the exhibition “Peaks of light. Naoki Ishikawa on the Orobian Alps” (“Vette di luce. Naoki Ishikawa sulle Alpi Orobie”) in Carrara Academy (Accademia Carrara) in Bergamo, Italy, in August 2023. Ivan Kuznetsov / Panoramica
A hiker walks against strong winds on a plateau near the town of Rocca Calascio in the mountains of the Abruzzo region, Italy, in September 2023. Ivan Kuznetsov / Panoramica

All book data

• Title: Travel photography as therapy: Behind-the-scenes stories and advice. Photobook
• Author: Ivan Kuznetsov
• Publisher: Panoramica
• Date of first publication: spring 2025
• Language: English
• Translation from Russian to English: Ivan Kuznetsov
• Editor: Ivan Kuznetsov
• Layout design: Ivan Kuznetsov
• E-book: mobi, epub, with 150 color photographs
• Paper book: soft cover, b&w print with 150 photographs
• Print run: print-on-demand
• Foreign rights: available for purchase for all languages, countries and formats

This book is also available in Russian.

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The art and science of street photography: Interviews with masters and advanced amateurs. Ivan Kuznetsov
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