Odyssey: Aperture 222

Voyages, journeys, and the captivating spell of wanderlust.

This edition of Aperture magazine, “Odyssey,” features photography about voyages, journeys, and the captivating spell of wanderlust. In the Words section, Tacita Dean discusses her personal quests with writer Travis A. Diehl ; Eric Banks traces the midcentury journeys of famed travel writer Wilfred Thesiger ; Alexander Stille looks at Italian mountain-photography pioneer Vittorio Sella ; writer Sean O’Toole profiles the documentary projects of the Invisible Borders Trans-African Photographers Organisation, a West African photography collective; and multidisciplinary artist Taryn Simon speaks with Kate Fowle , of Moscow’s Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, about an artwork set for completion in the year 3015.