Look closer.
Keep it. Share it.

A small archive of looking closely

south brings together a visual journal and a simple photo library. We follow the light, the lines of buildings, and the edges of the water.

The journal pairs themed collections with short notes on each frame. The library is a place to keep your own photographs and share an original file by link, without messenger compression.

VPN stands for Visual Places & Nature. Visual is our point of view. Places are what we discover. Nature is what keeps us looking. Together, they give southVPN its name. South is a feeling here, rather than a promise of a particular geography.

Credit where it belongs

Our public collections use photographs from Unsplash. Every image links to its source; these are curated photographs, not a record of our own travels.