A visual and personal essay by photographer Sébastien J. Zanella exploring the Faroe Islands beyond their dramatic landscapes. Through analogue photography and intimate storytelling, When the Ocean Turns Red reflects on the grindadráp, empathy, moral judgment, and the responsibility of witnessing. A journey through one of the North Atlantic's most remote archipelagos that questions what it truly means to look, understand, and photograph without losing our humanity.

An exploration of Japanese photographer Sachiko Kuru and her unique use of color, creativity, and emotional connection beyond the limits of documentary photography.Kikuji Kawada's The Last Cosmology is far more than a photography book. Created over nearly thirty years, it is a profound meditation on time, attention, and the act of seeing. Inspired by Gaston Bachelard's reflections on the sky, Kawada transforms eclipses, halos, storms and celestial phenomena into poetic images that transcend documentary photography. In this essay, Desillusion Utopia explores why The Last Cosmology remains one of the most important contemporary photobooks, and what it teaches us about the value of long-term artistic practice in an age dominated by immediacy.

An exploration of Japanese photographer Sachiko Kuru and her unique use of color, creativity, and emotional connection beyond the limits of documentary photography.

Duane Michals was one of the most influential photographers of the twentieth century. Known for his photographic sequences, handwritten texts, and exploration of memory, imagination, death, and the invisible, he challenged the idea that photography should simply document reality. In this personal reflection, photographer and filmmaker Sébastien Zanella revisits Michals' work following his passing and explores the questions that connected their artistic journeys: how to photograph a feeling, reveal the unseen, and use photography as a tool for wonder rather than description.

A soundtrack for long days, open horizons, and the feeling of being fully alive.

This new New New Adventurer playlist gathers songs inspired by movement, exploration, and the arrival of summer. Music for road trips, ocean swims, mountain walks, and quiet moments under the sun.

Carefully selected by photographer and filmmaker Sébastien Zanella, this playlist reflects the spirit of Desillusion UTOPIA and the New New Adventurer journey. A celebration of freedom, presence, nature, and the art of making life a poetry.

Listen, wander, and let the landscape move through you.

More than ten years after meeting legendary writer, artist, and Dogtown chronicler Craig Stecyk in Los Angeles, I revisit a conversation that shaped my understanding of creativity, attention, and the search for meaning. Through reflections on skateboarding, the ocean, and the hidden possibilities within everyday landscapes, Stecyk reveals a philosophy that extends far beyond skate culture. An exploration of observation, uncertainty, and the idea that some encounters only reveal their true meaning years later.

February feels both close and already gone.

We gathered for a week on the island, carried by wind, storms, light, and something harder to name. Something between presence and disappearance. Between seeing and being seen.