Allison Kalloo
Allison laughing with a woman wearing a wide black hat in Havana

03 — Elsewhere

Travel

Place changes perspective. Perspective changes everything.

A wider lens

Go far enough to see differently.

I believe travel has magical powers to expand people's minds. It interrupts assumptions, rearranges the familiar, and makes room for another way of seeing.

I travel to pay attention— to people, food, language, design, landscape, ritual, and the small details that reveal how a place understands itself.

Those encounters come home with me. They influence what I photograph, what I make, what I question, and how I think about connection across cultures and communities.

The journey begins

Havana

People, laughter, movement, and moments shared along the way.

Allison laughing on a Havana street in a wide black hat beside a companion
Allison in a wide black hat posing on broad stone steps in Havana
Allison smiling with a companion inside a Havana cafe
Allison and five companions gathered for a rooftop photograph in Havana
Allison and three companions standing beneath a collection of decorative plates in a Havana home
Allison making a playful expression with two companions during a car ride in Havana
Allison smiling behind a woman and child during a sunny boat ride in Havana
Allison and a companion smiling together during a night out in Havana

The journey continues

Paris

Allison smiling beneath the illuminated Eiffel Tower at night
The illuminated Eiffel Tower rising into a deep blue evening sky
Allison in a bright patterned outfit and neon backpack pointing up at the Arc de Triomphe
The Seine at dusk, lit bridges reflected in the water beyond an ornate iron railing
Notre-Dame de Paris glowing against a deep blue evening sky
Allison with long braids in front of the illuminated Louvre pyramid at night
Close-up of an ornate iron bridge railing above the softly blurred, glowing Seine
The Louvre pyramid lit from within against the night sky
Allison posing playfully on a marble staircase beneath a blue stained-glass window
Stone plaque marking where Joséphine Baker kept a cabaret from 1926 to 1928
A Paris café window with a Havana Club rum barrel, patterned tile floor and reflected balconies
A chandeliered Parisian hallway with stained-glass windows, gilt-framed paintings and a grey cat
Allison grinning wide-eyed in front of the glowing Louvre pyramid at night
The Louvre pyramid glimpsed through a dark stone archway, visitors silhouetted below

More places, more stories

The archive will keep moving.

  • Reykjavik
  • London
  • South Florida
  • Washington, DC
  • NYC
  • Chicago

The archive

Stories, photographs, field notes, and what the journey changed.

Travel stories

The places, people, meals, and moments worth returning to in words.

Photo essays

What caught my eye— and what stayed with me after I left.

Follow the thread

Travel is part of the creative practice, not a footnote to it.

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