
Hi, I’m Joris Hermans, Belgian documentary & world photographer. One year ago, I set off to travel and photograph the world with my partner in life, Joanna. I explore and photograph the world to meet people, experience cultures and make travel photography interesting again… Welcome to my travel and photography journal. // Read more…

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A lot of his photos convert the world into some kind of fairy tale. It’s like you’re looking at a still of a historic movie—I don’t mind at all…
This was just the beginning of a new path in life—one that involved a lot of hard work...
Do you really want to improve your photos? Then forget about camera settings for a while and focus on what’s really important.
With production teams and budgets that rival those of movies, his work is controversial but incredibly fascinating...
You need to think faster because even though traffic is slow, scenes pass by in seconds and there’s only a short time to react. There’s no turning back.
It’s difficult to pick just one photograph that stand out because he has so many great ones. So I thought, let me pick a photograph of him that I really like and then find one of my photos with a similar vibe.
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I love street photography but somehow I often don't like to shoot in large Asian cities. Hat Yai was different…
“You're doing it wrong.” That's basically the reaction I get when people – without having seen my photos – learn I use a medium format camera for almost every kind of photography…
I'm getting a lot of questions about why and how I manage to travel with a heavy medium format camera. Someone even called me a beast being able to lug it around! I'm not but here's why I travel with it!