Born in Morocco, Lalla Essaydi's career as an artist began when she moved to France to attend the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in the early 1990s. Today she lives and works in New York and Marrakesh. This digital exhibition from the National Museum of African Art brings together some of her photographs, paintings, and multimedia installations. As the site remarks "Essaydi confronts expectations founded on...

Homer L. Shantz was a leading American botanist and former president of the University of Arizona who was also quite the world traveler. He made extensive trips throughout the American West and Africa and he spent a large amount of time documenting the Arizona-Sonoran desert area in 1931. His works are tremendously valuable, as his photographic documentation of vegetation change is an important...

The late Harrison Forman was a well-known photojournalist, world traveler, and fellow of the American Geographical Society. During his long career, he focused on places such as the South Pacific, Africa, South America, and the Middle East. He was known as a "modern Marco Polo" and his primary interest was in people and their daily lives. Years after he passed away, his photo collection of about...

William Vaughn Tupper was quite the traveler, wandering around Europe, Great Britain, and North Africa from 1891-1894 with his family. This remarkable digital collection from the Boston Public Library contains 46 scrapbooks that document his fascinating journeys. First-time visitors might do well to check out "Volume 31: On the Nile. Cairo to Luxor" as a good starting point. Here they will find...