The people who report, photograph and edit Beyond The Geo. Every article on this site is written by someone who went there and paid their own way.
Editor & co-founder
Elin started Beyond The Geo in 2019 with a notebook of border-crossing times and guesthouse phone numbers. She writes mostly about the North Atlantic and the Arctic, and she is the reason ev…
Senior writer, cities
Marcus grew up between Lagos and south London and has spent nine years writing about how cities actually work at street level — who lives where, what changed, and which neighbourhood the gui…
Contributing editor, food
Rafaela cooks, and then writes about why a dish is made the way it is. Based in Porto, she covers markets, producers and the long arguments communities have about their own recipes. She has…
Photography editor
Yusuf shoots and edits everything visual here, and writes the pieces about how the pictures get made. He is based in Istanbul, works with a single 35mm lens more often than he admits, and ha…
Writer, environment & policy
Nadia covers the parts of travel that involve regulation, carbon and who actually benefits — night trains, overtourism rules, certification schemes. She trained as an urban planner in Beirut…
Writer, gear & logistics
Tom tests things until they break and then reports how long that took. Packing systems, boots, cold-weather kit, missed connections and the unglamorous mechanics of getting from one place to…
