travel photos & ephemera

I’m a German-born Chinese-American, currently transplanted to London. I grew up with a travel agent mother and an adventurous, somewhat restless, father, and my fondest memories of my childhood are of us traveling the world.
 
A couple of years ago, after their divorce, my mother unearthed a cache of old travel ephemera, including boarding passes and luggage tags from trips we had taken when I was a child. I treasure these bits of paper, souvenirs of times, places and, in some instances, airlines past. I’ve been pairing them with images from more recent trips, as I revisit these places as an adult.
 
In the image above, the well-loved white cat was photographed in Shanghai’s Old City in 2007. The Cathay Pacific boarding pass was from a trip I took with my parents in 1986.
 

Santa Cruz, CA (3 hours south of San Francisco) / Pan Am Boarding Pass
 

Great Wall cable car, Beijing, 2007 / CAAC Boarding Pass
 

Centre Pompidou ceiling, Paris / Air France Luggage Tag
 
The complete collection of ephemera and travel images were exhibited at the SOMEDAY, SOMEWHERE exhibition, 12-16 April 2011, in Clerkenwell, London.