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Tassilo de la Torre

A bed among the columns · Lycian tomb, Turkey
Golden hour with Fluffo · Turkey
The temple still stands · Turkey
Slung above the river · Regensburg, Germany
The stranded giant · Egypt
Leap into the shallows · Hungary
Beached at dusk · Croatia
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About

Portrait of Tassilo in a red wool hat lying in a teal hammock, cradling Fluffo the black dog asleep on his chest
Fluffo the black dog in a red life vest sitting on a sandy beach, a long driftwood stick in his mouth
Fluffo, first mate, regulation life vest. Corsica.
Tassilo skiing at speed, carving a deep turn with snow spray flying against dark pines
The season the kayak stays folded. Ski teacher in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

Behind the camera.

I've had folding boats since I was twelve. Last summer I paddled a 1950s folding kayak 2,580 km down the Danube, from Ulm to the Black Sea, with my dog Fluffo as crew. I studied architecture and I've spent years in product photography. This year I'm crossing Spain on foot and by kayak, and paddling around Mallorca.

Five languages, and a lifetime of racing and paddling along the coasts of southern Spain, Corsica and the Mediterranean.

Commissioned by

ENESDEFRIT

2026

Spain, under human power

Across Spain on foot and by sea kayak: the Almería desert, the plains of Castilla, the wet green north coast. Sleeping outside most nights, with Fluffo.

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2026

A lap of Mallorca, filmed

Around Mallorca by sea kayak in stages, with Fluffo as crew, and I'll bring home a short documentary, daily films and a real body of photography.

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Next 2025

2025

The Danube, source to sea

2,580 km from Ulm to the Black Sea in a seventy-year-old folding kayak, with Fluffo

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2025

Corsica by sea kayak

Genoese towers, sea caves and camps on the shingle, along the west coast

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2025

Cycling Turkey and Greece

A loaded bicycle from the Aegean to Athens, in the heat of May

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2025

The Balkans by bike

Concrete monuments, bunkers and empty roads between the Adriatic and the Danube

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2025

Normandy by bicycle

The Atlantic Wall from the saddle: bunkers, chalk cliffs and a wooden crate on the rack

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Next 2023

2023

Down the Tiber

A blue and yellow folding kayak down an Italian river, and into Rome

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Next 2022

2022

Egypt

An abandoned wreck, the sea behind it, and whoever happens to walk past

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"Every collaboration starts small. The good ones I want to keep for years."

For brands & partners

One person who is photographer, subject and location at once.

And every collaboration plants ten trees. I dig the holes myself, in the emptiest highlands in Spain, and you get the coordinates.

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What I shoot with

The kit that comes along.

Light enough to carry for months, and able to take salt, sand and rain. This is the whole list, nothing extra.

Plus a few smaller cameras for the moments the others miss.

Writing

What I bring back besides pictures.

Two pieces from the rivers. One is an essay about a boat and a continent. The other is the only continuous report of the navigable Tiber that exists, written so the next person has something I did not.

Tassilo kneeling on the grass, hand-painting the name EUROPA on the bow of his folding kayak

Essay · The Danube

Hold On, Europa

On the roof of a Soviet boathouse in Budapest, patching a seventy year old folding kayak named Europa, the Parliament shining on the far bank. A thousand kilometres down, sixty days to the Black Sea, and a continent that needs repairing.

Read in English · Auch auf Deutsch

 Aerial view of a bivouac on a gravel bank of the Tiber, canoe, tent and all the gear of the journey

Report · Italy · Deutsch

Befahrung des Tibers

380 kilometres alone by canoe from Sansepolcro to the sea, in a boat bought from an 88 year old woman. Every weir, portage, rapid and campsite, day by day, with the annotated aerial maps. Written because no complete report of this river existed.

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Prints & editions

Prints for the wall.

Fine-art prints of the expeditions, from the water and from the air. Archival paper, signed and numbered, shipped worldwide.

The Danube beneath the Walhalla, Tassilo standing on his loaded folding kayak at golden hour
The Danube beneath the Walhalla
Aerial of La Vela di Calatrava, Rome, at dusk
La Vela di Calatrava, Rome
Dawn camp on Monte Molare above the Bay of Naples, Vesuvius on the horizon
Dawn on Monte Molare, Naples
A330 × 42 cm A242 × 59 cm A159 × 84 cm

Archival cotton paper, signed and numbered, shipped worldwide. Pick a size above and tell me which photograph you want. If you would rather have a size that is not listed, ask.

Every print plants a tree. One native tree, planted by hand in Guadalajara for every photograph sold. Not a donation: my own shovel, and the coordinates published.

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