Malte Jäger – couchsurfin’ the world | LensCulture

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Malte Jäger – couchsurfin’ the world | LensCulture

couchsurfin’ the world is a photodocumentary book project about web- based hospitality communities

Internet communication has grown rapidly in the last decade with increase in the use of social network applications such as facebook.com. These networks

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To understand the reality of hospitality networks I made five separate journeys documenting the differing motivations and uses of hospitality networks by my protagonists. All of my navigators differing in social and personal backgrounds as they explored lands foreign to themselves, following both individuals and friends traveling together, each journey in a different part of the world, and in a different mode of travel.