Jessica Williams is a US born artist, now based in Norway. One of the many things I love about her images is that it makes me feel like the world is kind and full of possibilities.

These images are from her pictures from places series. Look out for more of her work in issue 1 of Tour Mag .

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“In Cairo I broke off from the group for an hour to take photographs by myself. Later that night a local girl who saw me on the street came up to introduce herself at the bar: “I saw you earlier today. You stuck out from everyone else. You were walking so slow I knew you had to be either a tourist or an artist.” “

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As we started the process of trying to figure out what we wanted our publication to be about and where we would want to print it, Dante pulled together some texts on walking and made a quick test book which we then sent to one of our prospective printers. 

We got to see the quality of print and it helped inform us on the subject as well as helped create ideas for Tour. 

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Aurélie Moins takes us on a little tour of her home in Arles, France. 

“Whatever the season, Arles is reputed to be a place where time stands still.

Its nice to take a walk on the streets of Arles because the walls are covered with photographs and lush vegetation. Its exhilarating for the senses to travel the area of La Roquette to La Place du Forum, letting the powerful sun of southern France brown our skin before rushing under an umbrella with a glass of local rosé!

On the road to Saintes Marie de la mer, the interior of the Carmague is best explored on horseback. Here the horses are always smiling.”

Top row: 17 rue Jouvène
Bottom: Routes des Saintes Marie de la mer

Photo credit: Aurélie Moins

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Walking

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“I have met with but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of Walking, that is, of taking walks—who had a genius, so to speak, for SAUNTERING, which word is beautifully derived “from idle people who roved about the country, in the Middle Ages, and asked charity, under pretense of going a la Sainte Terre,” to the Holy Land, till the children exclaimed, “There goes a Sainte-Terrer,” a Saunterer, a Holy-Lander. They who never go to the Holy Land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds; but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense, such as I mean. Some, however, would derive the word from sans terre without land or a home, which, therefore, in the good sense, will mean, having no particular home, but equally at home everywhere. For this is the secret of successful sauntering. He who sits still in a house all the time may be the greatest vagrant of all; but the saunterer, in the good sense, is no more vagrant than the meandering river, which is all the while sedulously seeking the shortest course to the sea. But I prefer the first, which, indeed, is the most probable derivation. For every walk is a sort of crusade, preached by some Peter the Hermit in us, to go forth and reconquer this Holy Land from the hands of the Infidels.”

— Henry David Thoreau

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