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Portraits from a Distant Era

By Sword, by Crown, and Candlelight

Portraits from a Distant Era: With each subject, the series became more distinct in my imagination throughout the afternoon, and the idea of what the series would be changed, thanks to the…

The Goblin

The goblin was among the most sinister characters that appeared in Portraits…

The Banshee

Curating the final image in the Portraits from a Distant Era series…
August 23, 2021

The Demon Queen

Actor Sara Robinson brought cool, neutral tones to the Portraits from a Distant Era series with this mysterious powerful character of her own devising…
August 9, 2021

The Storyteller

The storyteller offers entertainment to those that would lend an ear to her tales, but her stories grant wisdom to the ones that would take the journey themselves…
July 19, 2021

Wanderer Queen

Featuring the phenomenal Deana Vazquez, this image from our second series, Portraits from a Distant Era, portrays the subject in a character she role-played and, over the course of many adventures, "leveled…

The All Worlds Traveller

Welcome to The All Worlds Traveller, an eclectic collection of thoughts, pictures, and stories from a Distant Era. Illustrated with Distant Era art and photographs, these pages explore the stories and worlds of people beyond the here and now, and the people and creative processes behind such stories. This is a blog about photography and narrative; history and myth; fantasy, science-fiction, and the weird; creation and experience. This is a blog about stories.

Steven Townshend

I’m Steven Townshend—your guide, scribe, editor, and humble narrator. The All Worlds Traveller is my personal publication, an exploratory conversation about stories and how we interact with them, from photographs to narratives to games—a kind of variety show in print. It is a conversation with other artists who explore the past, the future, and the fantastical in their work. Not one world—but all worlds. Where Distant Era shows stories in images, The All Worlds Traveller is all about the words.

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About a Distant Era

Distant Era creates fine art and portrait photographs of people and places from imagined pasts, possible futures, and magical realities. In collaboration with other artists, we evoke these distant eras with theatrical costume and makeup, evocative scenery, and deliberate lighting, and we enhance them with contemporary tools to cast these captured moments in the light of long ago or far away. We long to walk the lion-decorated streets of Babylon, to visit alien worlds aboard an interstellar vessel, and to observe the native dances of elves. Our images are windows to speculative realities and postcards from the past. They are consolation for fellow time travelers who long to look beyond the familiar scenery of the present and gaze upon the people and places of a distant era.

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