TRAVELLING REMOTELY
For anyone who likes getting on a plane and exploring far-flung places around the world, the ongoing pandemic era has not been a good time. Restrictions are constantly changing, borders are opening and closing, and many countries are off-limits. The only way most people can travel is through documentaries, video and photography.
It’s a good time, then, for Let’s Get Lost to arrive, a book that allows viewers to travel remotely to some of the most beautiful and remote corners of the world, including Rwanda, Russia, Greenland, Indonesia and Chile. The book’s curated by photographer and director Finn Beales, whose work appears with 20 other outdoor photographers, including Chris Burkard, Alex Strohl, Hannes Becker and Emilie Ristevski.
Born in Hay-on-Wye, close to the Brecon Beacons in Wales (where he still lives today with his wife and children), Beales is known for his cinematic style and visual storytelling, which has helped him pick up around 600,000 Instagram followers and led to him working with global lifestyle brands including Apple, Cartier, Land Rover and Omega, as well as tourist boards.
The upside of Covid-19’s travel restrictions, suggests Beales, is people across the UK discovering
