Experience the vastness of the world by experiencing someone's daily life
As an editor of a travel culture magazine, I feel like I'm on an adventure whenever I encounter something new. The movie "Earth" evoked that same feeling for me. I learned about the world of wildlife that we don't normally get to see, and at the same time, it made me think, "What a beautiful planet we live on," and made even the most mundane of everyday life seem precious.
Walker Evans' photo book "HAVANA 1933" was also a book that deeply moved me. The images of people in the 1930s overturn the image I had of Cuba as a socialist country. They are like a scene from a movie, or a fashion advertisement.
This photo book features Havana, Cuba's capital. Photographed before the Cuban Revolution, it captures everyday scenes from the cityscape, fashionable people walking and working, and more. Photographs: Walker Evans /Thames & Hudson/Sold out.
The ordinary scenery is filled with drama that transcends time and place, and I find myself turning the pages again and again, wishing I could have walked through Cuba at that time. What may seem like an everyday life to someone else seems fresh and adventurous to me; that's how both works make me feel.
