In the era of digital media and digital nomads, travel photography has gone through a huge and fast change that has transformed its traditional forms and practices. On one hand, travel photography has become more democratic and accessible to a wider audience, especially thanks to platforms like Instagram. But on the other hand, it is often used as a personal statement or as a mere commercial venue, playing on the adventurous mood of the so-called ‘wanderlust’ but leaving aside the thirst for knowledge and discovery that enlivens photographers since the invention of the first Kodak. However, Kai’s and Scarpa’s ability to capture moments of intimacy and equality in the wilderness of nature and in almost depopulated areas leaves an open space for visual experimentation and poetry, or simply to an honest expression of photography.