Paris: A place like no other

As the world prepares to watch and celebrate the thirty-third Olympic Summer Games in July and August, the beautiful host city of Paris gets to also celebrate one hundred years since it lasted hosted the games in 1924.  This will be the third time Paris has hosted the Summer Games, more than any other city, having […]

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Spotlight on Long Visual Press

Long Visual Press, founded in 2021, is an established photojournalism and photo agency based in Bogota, Colombia. The agency represents 20 photographers across Colombia and internationally in the USA and Portugal. Covering the geopolitically important country of Colombia, the agency and its photographers have added more than nine thousand images to the worldwide market since […]

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The Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, Italy

Inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1987, the Piazza del Duomo (Cathedral Square) in Pisa, Italy is home to iconic monuments recognized worldwide. These masterpieces of medieval architecture – the cathedral, the baptistery, the bell tower (the ‘Leaning Tower’) and the cemetery – were erected between the 11th and 14th centuries within close proximity […]

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Marco Polo – died 8 January 1324. 700 years ago.

Marco Polo (born c. 1254, Venice [Italy] – died January 8, 1324, Venice) a Venetian merchant and adventurer who travelled from Europe to Asia in 1271–95, remaining in China for 17 of those years, and whose Il milione (“The Million”), known in English as the Travels of Marco Polo, is a classic of travel literature. He was one of the first westerners to visit China. Marco […]

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