Is it nonetheless doable to journey and expertise the factor of shock? Enchantment possibly, amazement even. However pure, unalloyed shock? Keep on the breadcrumb path of at the moment’s legion of itinerant influencers, and certain not. All the pieces, it appears, has been seen, posted and favored by hundreds earlier than us, rendering the entire notion of self-discovery, if not redundant, then sorely undermined. What likelihood now a visit’s capability to hit the ‘massive reveal’?
Properly, keep tuned, as our June 2025 Journey Challenge makes good on its mission to hit the pleasure factors that solely shifting round our planet can present.
Our journey director, Lauren Ho, stories from Hong Kong, a metropolis teeming with next-gen expertise, whereas this month’s vogue story sees our vogue and artistic director Jason Hughes paint the city purple in Las Vegas. And journey editor Sofia de la Cruz challenged seven photographers to ship examples of mementoes collected whereas globetrotting, throwing up an intriguing array of things from the priceless to the prosaic.
The solar units behind the Worldwide Finance Centre constructing on the waterfront of Hong Kong’s Central District
(Picture credit score: Pictures: Ken Ngan)
However nonetheless, that niggle; shock – the way to generate the sensation that we haven’t all been right here earlier than, albeit by way of the lens of some raw-dogging pseudo-adventurer’s smartphone? We discovered the reply in a treatise by Yolanda Edwards (the inventive director and founding father of Yolo Journal) on tackling the dearth of spontaneity in journey today, plotting a path to rediscovering serendipity whereas on the street that an over-reliance on time-saving, surprise-sapping expertise too typically denies us.
And as a finale, for our new Finish Paper sequence, appearing international design director Hugo Macdonald explores the great thing about jet lag, that draining, liminal state all of us expertise in some unspecified time in the future in our travelling lives, but one that may ship stunning advantages to our personal thoughts’s eye. As he writes: ‘[Its] sense of cosmic isolation might be harnessed into taking a superb take a look at one’s life decisions and questioning what’s working and what’s not… Outdoors the passive humdrum of day by day life, the chance for frank readability abounds.’ Very like journey itself, unsurprisingly sufficient.
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