A year in journey photography: the 16 very best visuals of 2022

Balazs Gardi’s photograph displays us an intimate father-daughter minute: Eleonari Arce Aguilar and his daughter Guadalupe at Rancho Mesa San Esteban in the Sierra de San Francisco, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Read through the piece about the dying tradition of vaqueros, the cowboys of Baja California, right here.

In our Jan/Feb 2022 issue, Jason Florio’s image story took readers alongside the Gambia River on Africa’s west coastline. While there are several villages on the river’s banking institutions, most inland villages have a tenda (wharf) the place fishermen can be observed in their canoes. Study the story.

Even the slowest of creatures can find peace in a moment of rest. This impression of a sloth was portion of photographer Jamie Lafferty’s shoot in Costa Rica for our March 2022 challenge. See the photograph story here.

A girl hangs lanterns all through Bucheonim osin nal, Buddha’s birthday, at Yongunsa Temple, Busan, South Korea. The working day is a key holiday in Korea, the place the temples come alive with color and activity. For the duration of the working day, people congregate at the temple to try to eat and pray. As night falls, the lanterns are lit, casting a colourful glow throughout the temple grounds.

For our May well 2022 situation, Adrian Phillips discovers the mountains and fishing boats of postcard-like St Lucia. The volcanic island has had strategic relevance for hundreds of years and now is a destination abundant in heritage and natural beauty. Observed above are fishermen offering their catch to The Bare Fisherman cafe in Smugglers Cove. Study it here.

As South Korean cuisine has grown in reputation internationally, the cooks of Seoul turn inwards and focus on putting domestically sourced elements at the core of their menus. Hahna Youn provides us a breakdown of Seoul’s culinary scene, with Ben Weller’s images accompanying the text. Here we see a truck marketing beverages at Dongdaemun Structure Plaza Youth Runway Marketplace, a night current market that to runs from April to October. Go through the posting right here.

A black bishop is in warm water just after a white rook threatens to capture it in this heated chess match, remaining played at the Széchenyi Thermal Baths, Budapest. As the major medicinal baths in Europe, Széchenyi are one particular between the numerous bathhouses constructed by the Romans and the Turks. Examine Adrian Phillips’ guide on how to spend 24 hrs in the Hungarian money below.

Kunene, in the north west of Namibia, is regarded for its harsh living circumstances for both of those the people and animals inhabiting its broad deserts. Peering across the landscape is local information Robbin Uatokuja, captured by Scott Ramsay. 

For the Autumn difficulty of Food items by Countrywide Geographic Traveller, Nicola Trup broke bread with ninth era farmers Anna and Óli Rubeksen in the Faroe Islands, Denmark. Óli (still left) is keeping 1 of the farm’s chickens. Go through about their locally sourced feast here.

Photographer Cao Ky Nhan captures the enchanting inexperienced nipa palm forests in Vietnam’s Tinh Khe, a commune in the Quang Ngai province. The palm leaves glistening in the early-early morning sunlight are employed by community fisherfolk and farmers for roofing as properly as decoration.

For our Dec 2022 concern Bella Falk writes about Guatemala’s highland region in which the most celebrated craft is the generations-old artwork of backstrap loom weaving and is practised predominantly by Maya ladies. In the image is Marta Perez Dias, dressed in San Antonio Palopó’s conventional colors, using a spinning wheel to wind freshly dyed cotton on to a reel, ready for weaving.

For our Food stuff by Countrywide Geographic Traveller Winter season concern David Charbit uncovered Cornwall’s area culinary delights in the course of wintertime months. In the picture we see Chris ‘Ranger’, just one of the final oyster fishermen in Cornwall, in his 50-calendar year-old wooden oyster boat, the Alf Smyhters.

In our close-of-year Winter season Sporting activities guideline, Simon Bajada offers us with the cowbell sounds and cheesemakers of the classic Swiss mountain village Levron, just down the valley from the lavish Verbier ski resort. In the picture, photographer Pierre Menasse returns to the village of Le Chable with his St Bernard doggy following paying the day up on the slopes.