There is this beauty about traveling on your own in a truck. After having been on many assignments flying from one place to another, always keeping my baggage to a minimum, partly because I hate checking bags and partly because it’s just lighter on me, I found it so enjoyable to pack my Land Rover with books, a mattress, food, water, snacks and random things that I just moved from my room to the truck.

Also, if I find exploded rocket shells, spears, or handcrafted wooden chairs along the way, for once I can take them with me!

Pulling a Gods Must Be Crazy (Dominic Nahr)

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How I got to Africa is a bit of a mystery even to me. I have no idea what compelled me to randomly head over to this amazing continent. The moment I decided to leave Germany was after coming back from a party having just moved to Berlin. All I knew was I wanted to check out this war that was happening somewhere in Congo. At that point I probably couldn’t have pointed out the country on a map (even if it is the size of Western Europe). From never really thinking about Africa, to deciding in a couple of hours that I was going to fly there, was slightly random to say the least.

(Dominic Nahr)

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My name is Dominic Nahr and as of now, I am represented by Magnum Photos. I used to be a member of a small French agency called Oeil Public in Paris until they closed, moved briefly to Reportage by Getty Images before finally finding my home at Magnum.

Me working for the South China Morning Post.

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At the beginning, my objective was to document the spotter community and after some time, I realized that I had many similar images of people watching planes. I was not feeling good about the development of the project when I received some very encouraging advice from a visiting photographer, Trish Morissey. She said sometimes it is necessary to go through cliché images before advancing to the next level. Her advice pushed me to go out of my way and look at the environment differently.

Plane spotting at Heathrow. Image © Özant Kamacı

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