The Secret Map
Travel Essays by Simon Slater
Category: England
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On a recent trip to the Big Smoke to see an old flame, I took my camera and stayed a few days. Using the sleepy, leafy, and extremely posh area of Kensington as a launchpad to wander about central London, the excursion culminated alongside the red carpet of the UK premiere of ‘Three Billboards outside…
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Three days roaming the streets of London.
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I met Lononder Teni Backare, aka Teni the Abstract, in Seoul, South Korea, where we both earned our bread and visa status as English teachers. We’d connected through social media and met up in the grungy yet rapidly gentrifying neighbourhood of Hongdae. Her passion outside of the classroom was spending her weekends on the streets of Daegu, documenting…
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The evening I received my new full frame camera, the Nikon D750, I took it out for a walk. I made a brief stop at the pub next to my apartment, The Surrey Vaults, because they had displayed a photograph I had taken of a regular behind the bar. Another frequenter, a Jamaican-British man named Trevor, asked…
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When my Italian friend Debora returned to Bristol for a few days, she suggested a day trip to a historic pier on the outskirts of Bristol. I didn’t need much convincing to escape the construction drills and sirens of the city centre but was pleasantly surprised how close an oceanic escape was – just a mere…
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An Autumn photoshoot with an Italian in Bristol.
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Welcome to the Jurassic Coast of Dorset, England.
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