theworldwithsarah
I'm Sarah — a Scottish/Singaporean photographer living out of a van, chasing the Arctic light across Scotland, Norway, Kyrgyzstan, Jordan, and anywhere else the road leads. Photography has given me the life I never knew was possible.
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The Road Didn't Find Me Until I Was 22. I've Been Chasing Its Light Ever Since.
I'm Sarah Afiqah Rodgers — a Scottish/Singaporean photographer who spends most of her time living out of a van, somewhere between the Scottish Highlands and whichever horizon has pulled me in that month. My life didn't start on the road. For the first 15 years of it, I was a figure skater, and the inside of an ice rink was about as much of the wider world as I thought I'd need. It wasn't until I was 19 and started travelling that I realised nature and open space weren't a luxury for me — they were a necessity. And it wasn't until I was 22 that I finally picked up a camera properly and began learning how to turn that need into a career.
The turning point was a solo drive to the very top of Norway, from my front door in Scotland down through Dover, across to Calais, and then all the way back up again in an old Ford Focus. That trip cracked something open. Every bit of drive, passion, and purpose I now have for this work traces back to the weeks I spent behind that wheel, chasing the light further and further north. Eight years later, the Arctic is still where I return to again and again — every year, without fail — with the rest of the year split between van life across Scotland and the UK, the deep mountains of Kyrgyzstan, the sand dunes of Jordan, and whatever else the road offers up.
I've built TheWorldWithSarah around the kind of photography and storytelling that comes from being physically present in a place long enough for it to let its guard down. That philosophy is what drew me to ABC Trips. The expedition-style travel they specialise in — small ships, proper guides, serious time in serious landscapes — is the closest thing the industry has to what I actually do for a living. I've partnered with them to bring you a handful of trips I'd happily spend my own off-season on, starting with the one I've been circling for years: Antarctica, the only place on earth that might give my Arctic obsession a run for its money.
