Viewpoint: Isabella Ruffatti

How we can get more out of travel photography, proposes AP's online writer

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A lot of travel photography and videography today seems over-concerned with being aesthetically pleasing. You get a lot of extremely beautiful landscape pictures that don't say much, the must-take photos of a historic building, and images that attempt to capture and engage with the culture of a place but fall short.

If this is your cup of tea, I'm not judging. There's a reason why these photos are popular - they're really nice to look at and have a place within travel. What I am saying is that travel photography can be more than that.

It intersects with various photography genres, street photography for example, with #travelphotography often appearing at the bottom of street photography posts on Instagram.