Ambassadors

Skip the tourist traps and chow down with real NYCers:

With more than 12.2 million visitors per year, this is where both locals and tourists deeply immerse themselves in West Coast food culture:

Nish Nalbandian is a photojournalist and filmmaker who has worked in over 35 countries in a variety of environments from wars to sporting events.

"When I was 22, I met Jonah. Jonah had just returned from an 18-month journey from Paris to Palestine. When his travels ended, he wound up in the other room of our two-bedroom, 600-square-foot apartment on the Upper East Side of New York. It was with him that my education began."

Haiti Air Ambulance offers patients, regardless of their ability to pay, the opportunity for transfer from any hospital to another that provides higher-order medical services, typically in the larger cities.

One of the craziest projects I've worked on, Topdeck Travel called and asked if I would be interested in producing a two-minute European-roadtip timelapse.

NYC is a culinary mecca with the best chefs and restaurants in the world. From late-night grub to Michelin stars, here are 10 places real New Yorkers eat.

Matador is teaming up with the Frontline Freelance Register to show you what conflict and foreign freelancers carry with them on assignments.

The Kurdish population here has thus far refused to overtly align with either side of the conflict, in a diplomatic position they've labeled "Third Line.”

Some of the most beautiful mountains in the country surround Bamiyan, and after years of working in the country I was finally able to arrange a trip.

Indonesia’s Wakatobi Dive Resort proudly claims the title of being the most remote dive resort in the world.

Cengiz shares with us this iPhone photo essay, offering a glimpse of what life is like inside northeastern Syria.

When you're sitting at work and daydreaming about a secret island paradise, you might be picturing Palawan.

Surfer Chris Burkard's latest mission takes him to the Arctic Circle.

Football fever is gripping the nation.

Dan has been covering the refugee situation in the DRC.

Virunga National Park had been closed for 6 months after poachers murdered a park ranger.

Top skiers and riders competed in "the ultimate Big Mountain showdown."

I didn’t realize the terrain and snow conditions would be world class.

My typical day as a professional rock climber was going to change.

The Pasola Festival is a human bloodletting ending in a all-out riot.

Haines is arguably the best place in the world for heli-skiing.

Riders go from zero to fast in a hurry.

I had done all the moves. I just needed another chance or two or five.

500 people converge on Valdez each spring to rip some classic Alaskan terrain.

I was looking for an escape to somewhere warm and photogenic.

Just preparing for a winter road trip up the ALCAN is a feat in itself.

Four feet of fresh powder in the Monashees of British Columbia.

The road from Idaho to Alaska is lined with powder.

Antoinette isn't dying of breast cancer; she's dying of poverty.

"If I had made the podium on that day, I would've made the US Ski Team."

It would be a sort of milestone in my climbing career.

I asked my translator to please tell these women that my heart is with them.

What if you could find success simply by doing one thing for your health?

All that’s going through my head is “Did I go too far this time? Why the hell am I here?”

Now more than ever, traveling in Brazil can be expensive. WWOOFing can help balance that.

It's a beautiful life on the far southern edge of the world.

Lucas Pernin is a freelance photographer and writer based in Sweden.

KC Ortiz is a freelance photojournalist based in Bangkok

What conflict and foreign freelancers carry out with them on assignments.

What conflict and foreign freelancers carry out with them on assignments.

Locations once impossibly far suddenly became accessible.

The Cook Islands had taken a few more unsuspecting hearts.

Group dynamic is the intangible, skittish enemy on every trip.

He has brought his camera into areas where bullets are flying and bombs are falling.

Lighting is still the most important factor when shooting on your iPhone.

“Okay, Shannon, we race?” he asked with a smile.

What conflict and foreign freelancers carry out with them on assignments.

This is a selection of photographs from what became one of my best trips so far.