58 articles tagged with street art
Standing before a three-story mural depicting a masked gunman, I felt the weight of Belfast's troubled history pressing against my chest like a heavy manuscript. Just minutes later, around a corner in the Cathedral Quarter, I found myself smiling at...
The first thing that strikes you in Valparaíso isn't the Pacific Ocean stretching endlessly westward, though that view alone would merit the journey. It's the riot of color cascading down the city's 42 cerros (hills), as if some cosmic editor...
When I tell colleagues at my Boston risk management firm that I spent a week in Bogota for less than what most people spend on coffee in a month, I'm met with raised eyebrows and skeptical glances. But as someone...
There's something deeply satisfying about peeling back the layers of a city to discover what lies beneath its polished surface. As someone who's made a career of exploring cultural intersections, Kansas City presented me with a fascinating dichotomy: a place...
As a wildlife biologist who has spent decades observing how nature adapts to urban environments, I've developed a particular fascination with how cities themselves evolve and tell stories through their architecture, hidden spaces, and public art. Kaunas, Lithuania's second-largest city...
The Athens that captured my heart wasn't the one in guidebooks. While the Parthenon stands eternal against that impossibly blue Aegean sky, it's in the narrow alleyways and graffiti-adorned walls of neighborhoods like Exarchia, Psyrri, and Koukaki where the city's...
The first time I stepped off the metro at Hongdae station, I was hit by a sensory overload that immediately told me Seoul was unlike any other Asian metropolis I'd explored. Having traversed countless urban landscapes from Melbourne to Manchester,...
The morning light filters through the jacaranda trees, casting purple-dappled shadows across Guadalajara's streets as I adjust my ##AFFILIATE##travel sketchbook|Moleskine Art Collection Sketchbook##/AFFILIATE## on my lap. There's something about this city that speaks to both sides of my heritage—the familiar...
The first time I stepped into Barcelona with my son Theo, I had the classic animator's dilemma – how do you look beyond the main character when they're as scene-stealing as Antoni Gaudí? His fantastical buildings are like something straight...
Rome wasn't built in a day, and trust me, you won't see the real Rome in one either. Seven years ago, when I first brought my son Leo to the Eternal City, we did the standard tourist circuit—Colosseum, Vatican, throw...
When I first wandered into Plovdiv last spring, I expected ancient Roman ruins and historic cobblestone streets—and yes, those are magnificent. But what captured my heart was something unexpected: the vibrant pulse of creativity transforming this 8,000-year-old city into Bulgaria's...
There's something magical about cities where ancient and modern collide – where street art adorns colonial buildings and where prayers echo against smartphone clicks. After spending years documenting traditional farming methods across continents, my camera has increasingly turned toward urban...
As a wildlife biologist who has spent decades studying urban adaptations, I've developed a particular fascination with how human creativity transforms city landscapes. Montreal's street art scene represents a fascinating parallel to the ecological principle of succession—blank walls evolve into...
