Black Tomato

The trade winds that shaped centuries of Indian Ocean culture still fill the sails of NaiSabah, a wide-beamed former Omani pearling vessel now beautifully restored as a private boat cruising Kenya’s Lamu Archipelago. This is travel stripped to its essentials: wind, water, and a captain and crew who know these channels intimately. Days pass between snorkeling vivid coral reefs...

For the Ait Atta, the mountains of the Jebel Saghro are home. In fact, they are many homes, because these nomads move their entire lives across them two times each year.

Only this time you’ll be walking alongside them. Not to observe, passively, but to take part in the timeless living ritual that these Keepers embody. Sharing their food, their fires, their company – a ...

For the people of Connemara, storytelling is much more than an evening’s entertainment.
In fact, it holds the whole community together.

This impulse to storytelling is carried in the language they speak and the tales they share, through the dances they perform and the names they give to the world around them. It’s tradition, a thing carried from the past. But it’...

For The Keepers of Langhe-Roero, a pocket of rolling hills and forests in northwestern Italy, food represents a deep relationship between the community and the land that sustains them. And it comes with a lot of well-deserved pride.

It’s something you can feel in how they talk and the energy they radiate – through the produce they farm and forage to the animals they ca...

For the people of Chiloé, the sea is a lot more than a barrier that separates them from the Chilean mainland. Instead, it’s the foundation of their identity – a moving, living thing that has shaped the way they live and the people they’ve become.

And it’s not a secret that’s locked away in books. Their strength stems not only from the sea but the living archive of know...