In Sunset Boulevard, Billy Wilder’s amazing film noir, screenwriter Joe Gillis tells one-time great movie star Norma Desmond “You’re Norma Desmond. You used to be in silent pictures. You used to be big”. To this, Desmond, played by Gloria Swanson, mercilessly responds “I am big. It’s the pictures that got small”. The line is one of the most famous in the history of cinema, and one can’t help but wonder whether, to some extent, it speaks to present-day photography as well. As an art form, photography is more than safe, and the sheer volume of selfies taken every second should more than suffice as proof that it is also inextricably tied to our every-day reality. But how often are these constantly shot photos printed out? It seems, at times, that as the phone has replaced the camera, so the digital photo has replaced the picture frame.

Isabella Thaller traveled the world for 9 months, and visited Thailand, Bali, Cambodia, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, California, Costa Rica and Iceland. The pictures she took of that long journey are now VOYAGE, a book of 90 photographs printed on an Indigo Press on Mohawk Superfine uncoated, with a screen printed greyboard cover and open stitch binding. The edition feels luxurious, not only in the production choices made, but in the act of production itself, that being publishing photographs. It is not that seldom that this happens, and yet photographs of travel in particular bring back to mind Desmond’s line. The published photographs make the world bigger again.