Fotograf Zone – My one and only reader

The street-delimited area where the highway edge perches

So comfortably Lanes with green bands on moderate slopes

A distant poplar marvel where the city once used to have

Its end Yet the sign heads abroad as anything I need now

Jonáš Hájek, from the collection A Trip to Schengen / My one and only reader

Selected by Luboš Svoboda

Translated by Kateřina Danielová

#46 Tourism

It is interesting how much the world of photography is connected with tourism, in other words, how much the two domains may have in common. If we look at them through the lens of a mass phenomenon, they may even be similarly old. And it is in this perspective that a number of controversial questions arise in all their clarity. To what extent has tourism affected many of the coastlines and unique destinations that attract tourists? And to what extent does photography influence our perception of the places we visit?