Jeremiah A. Gilbert is an award-winning photographer and travel writer. His travels have taken him to over a hundred countries and all seven continents, while his photography has been published internationally and exhibited worldwide. His artistic journey began not with a map, but with a sense of wonder. His camera has been both compass and confidant, guiding him through bustling markets, remote villages, and landscapes where the horizon feels infinite. His creative vision is rooted in curiosity—seeking out moments that are both intimate and expansive, where the quiet details of a place reveal its deeper story. His photographs are less about ticking destinations off a list and more about tracing the threads of humanity that weave the world together. Inspired by fleeting light, unguarded gestures, and the textures of everyday life, his work captures not just the way a place looks, but the way it feels to stand there, breathe it in, and become part of its unfolding narrative.

He is the author of five travel books, including Can’t Get Here from There: Fifty Tales of Travel, From Tibet to Egypt: Early Travels After a Late Start, and On to Plan C: A Return to Travel, which documented his return to travel post-COVID and was the first to include his photography. Around the World in Eighty Photos features images created over two decades of traveling, each accompanied with a brief story of how the image was created along with the camera settings used. His latest, An Atlas of Ordinary Wonders, gathers twenty photo essays that capture the beauty, resilience, and complexity of communities often absent from traditional travel narratives. He can be found on Instagram @jg_travels

His current travel cameras are the Leica CL and Nikon Z6, though he has had many travel cameras over the years. You can read about his prior travel cameras here.

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Photography is not about the camera. It’s about the person behind the camera.
— Mary Ellen Mark