Twenty-five years of photographing the far north and south
Expedition journals and photography from South Georgia to Svalbard, and the places in between. Most of them take a while to reach.
Latest from the road
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Takanawa Gateway City and the Museum of Narratives
Takanawa Gateway is the newest station on the Yamanote line — opened in 2020 under a Kengo Kuma roof of timber and white membrane…
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The Strings, then over to Haneda
And good morning, Tokyo. It’s been a while! At 07:13 the view north from my room at The Strings is office towers all the…
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Melbourne to Tokyo, via Cairns
73,800 Qantas Frequent Flyer points buys me a mixed class one-way flight from Melbourne to Tokyo (Narita) – 11 months in advance. JQ34 is…
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Orcas of the Salish Sea
Today I’ve booked to find the orcas of the Salish Sea with Wild Whales Vancouver, which departs from Granville Island. The boat departs at…
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Vancouver, British Columbia
It’s an early start this morning for the Amtrak Cascades train to Vancouver, Canada. The train departs Seattle’s King Street Station at 7:45am, which…
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A visit to the Boeing Factory, Seattle
I only have 1 day in Seattle, Washington State, and plan to spend the bulk of it at the Boeing Factory out in Everett,…
Chris Howarth
I photograph wildlife and landscape in the places that are hard to get to — the Subantarctic islands and the Antarctic Peninsula in the south, Svalbard and the Aleutians in the north, and the Kimberley in between.
This site is the written record of those trips, alongside the pictures.
342
journal entries
40+
countries and territories
2027
next expedition — fourteen weeks away from home