Travel photography as therapy

Twenty years of wandering the world. Photo story

Winter 2026

Highlights

• 75 photographs
• 20 years of adventures
• 11 countries in Europe, Asia and America
• People on each photo
• Advice on photography

Overview

“Travel photography as therapy” is a book of behind-the-scenes stories and advice from 75 photos. Its author is an outdoor journalist and editor, and an amateur photographer like you. He made these photos over 20 years of traveling through 11 countries in three parts of the world: 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 more than 20 masters of the close street photography genre. For the same reason, it is a story about people. They’re present in all the shoots.

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.

All options

Author
Map
Overview
Introduction
1. USA 2004
2. Siberia 2009
3. St. Petersburg and surroundings 2010–2012
4. Finland 2011
5. Dolomites, Italy 2013
6. France 2014
7. Russia, Europe and Asia 2015–2018
8. Dolomites 2018
9. Russia, Europe and Asia 2019–2020
10. Bergamo, Italy 2020
11. Italy and surroundings 2021–2024
Main thought
Advice on photography
Cameras
Locations list
Acknowledgements
Catalog

Photos

Each photograph in the book is accompanied by a short story from one to three pages.

A fisherman casts his line on the river Angara, the only river flowing out of lake Baikal, in the center of Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia. September 2009. Ivan Kuznetsov

An employee of the ski center “Avena” on the mountain of the same name, 1,454 meters, in the Dolomites transports skiers to the slopes in a special vehicle, Belluno province, Veneto region, Italy. March 2013. Ivan Kuznetsov

Chinese tourists in colorful winter down jackets take photos on Red Square in Moscow, Russia. April 2018. Ivan Kuznetsov

Alessandro, a traveler from Bergamo, Italy, somewhat reminiscent of the hero of the film “Into the Wild” (2014), rows a wooden rowboat on a forest lake in South Karelia region, Finland. September 2018. Ivan Kuznetsov

A group of twelve participants in creative hikes organized by the Panoramica studio begins a hike across the Pale di San Martino mountain plateau, at an altitude of 2,000 meters in the Dolomites, Trentino province, Trentino — Alto Adige region, Italy. September 2018. Ivan Kuznetsov

A man “falls” on the ice at the Sokolniki Eco-Center skating rink in the park of the same name in Moscow, Russia. January 2019. Ivan Kuznetsov

Members of the band “Atom Tanks” perform at the “Reves” volunteer group’s stand at the Bean Festival (Festa del fagiolo) in the village of Lamon, Dolomites, Belluno province, Veneto region, Italy. September 2019. Ivan Kuznetsov

Irina Kudres visits the exhibition “Peaks of light. Naoki Ishikawa in the Orobie Alps” (“Vette di luce. Naoki Ishikawa sulle Alpi Orobie”) at the Accademia Carrara art museum in Bergamo, Lombardy region, Italy. August 2023. Ivan Kuznetsov

A hiker walks against strong winds with gusts of up to 15 m/s on a plateau near the town of Rocca Calascio in the Apennines, against the backdrop of Corno Grande, 2,912 meters, the highest mountain in this mountain system, Abruzzo region, Italy. September 2023. Ivan Kuznetsov

Members of the “Cui Ferd” volunteer group “cover” a larch tree trunk with a banner during the Majo Feastival (Festa del Majo) in the village of Lamon, Dolomites, Belluno province, Veneto region, Italy. May 2024. Ivan Kuznetsov

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All data

• Title: Travel photography as therapy. Twenty years of wandering the world. Photo story
• Author: Ivan Kuznetsov
• Publisher: Panoramica
• Date of first publication: winter 2026
• Language: English
• Translation from Russian to English: Ivan Kuznetsov
• Ebook: Kindle, epub, with 75 color photographs
• Paper book: hard cover and soft cover, white paper, color print with 75 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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