Travel Photography

Through the summer I've taken a huge interest in travel photography. But instead of focussing on the things cities are known for- The Scott Monument, Eiffel Tower, St Michael's Mount, etc.- I wanted to focus on the things that people don't normally see. The things that are there but that we walk past and ignore. 

Edinburgh

Edinburgh Waverley Train Station

Construction Site, Edinburgh

Edinburgh Trams

Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh

Edinburgh

 While the almost glamour and pristine 'tourist attractions' of these beautiful cities of course are of interest, seeing sites that will stay with me forever like St Gile's Cathedral, the National Gallery of Scotland and the Palace of Holyrood House in Edinburgh, along with the Sacre Coeur and the Louvre in Paris aren't the only reasons I want to travel the world. I want to see the character that is often ignored, the parts that show what the humans within the cities are really like. The backstreets full of graffiti and construction.

Paris

Paris

Paris

These tell so much of a different story to the places where you're asked every two minutes by other tourists to take their photograph. These are quiet, often empty of everyone except local people. These aren't what I'd expect to show people when they ask to see my photographs of Paris and Edinburgh, but these are the parts I felt I was properly in the cities.