Travel worth developing.
Polachrome plans the kind of trips people used to bring slide carousels home to prove — considered, unhurried, and unmistakably yours. Golden-age travel, planned for now.
APPROACH How a trip gets made.
A short roll, well shot.
You don't need a hundred options — you need the few that are right. I do the narrowing, so every choice on your trip is one worth keeping.
The good light is booked in advance.
The upgrade, the right room, the table that isn't online, a name at the front desk. The parts of a trip you actually feel come from knowing people, not from a search bar.
One hand on the whole trip.
From the first idea to the ride home, you work with one person who knows the plan cold. No call centers, no handoffs, no hold music.
WHERE I PLANSpecialties
Japan
Italy
Patagonia & the Southern Cone
East Africa safari
The Greek islands
Slow France
Not on the list? Ask anyway — the network is wider than the highlights.
SELECTED WORKRecent trips.
Kyoto → Naoshima.
Ryokans, temples and an art island by ferry.
Puglia.
Masserie, sea caves, and a slow drive down the heel.
SELECTED WORK
Patagonia.
Torres del Paine base camp to the fjords of Tierra del Fuego.
ABOUTWho’s behind this.
I plan travel the way the great Kodachrome photographers worked — patiently, with an eye for light and timing, chasing the version of a place most people drive past. There was an era when a trip was something you came home and showed people, one frame at a time. That's the standard I hold.
Behind the romance is a modern platform doing the unglamorous part — quotes, logistics, the paperwork — so what reaches you is just the trip. A studio of one, with the reach of something much larger.
Polachrome is an independent affiliate of Fora Travel.SAY HILet’s plan something.
The fastest way in is a few quick questions — tell me who's traveling and I'll take it from there.