Wanderpressa travel archive, kept by handYour journey, pressed in time.

The photo records the place. The stamp records the memory.

Turn a travel photo into a numbered field note, pairing the original image with a hand carved stamp inspired by the place.

Coming to the App Store

A Wanderpress field notes press from Hallstatt, Austria. On the left, a photograph of the lakeside village, its church spire and painted houses under a grey limestone mountain, reflected in still water. On the right, on aged paper, a carved multi color stamp of the same village and mountain, captioned Hallstatt, Austria, No. 023, lake, mountains, quiet.

Examples

Every place leaves a mark.

  • A Wanderpress field notes press from Santorini, Greece. On the left, a photograph of blue domed churches and whitewashed houses stepping down a cliff above the sea at sunset. On the right, on aged paper, a carved multi color stamp of the same domes and cliff, captioned Santorini, Greece, No. 023, whitewashed, cliffs, sea.
  • A Wanderpress field notes press from Lake Braies, Italy. On the left, a photograph of a wooden boathouse and moored rowing boats on green water, below a pine forest and a bare Dolomite peak. On the right, on aged paper, a carved multi color stamp of the same boathouse and peak, captioned Lake Braies, Italy, No. 041, mountains, lake, stillness, 2024. 05. 12.
  • A Wanderpress field notes press from Lake Bled, Slovenia. On the left, a photograph of the wooded island church in the lake at golden hour, with a castle on the cliff behind it and snow on the far mountains. On the right, on aged paper, a carved multi color stamp of the island, the church and the ridge, captioned Lake Bled, Slovenia, No. 041, island, church, mountains, 2024.
  • A Wanderpress field notes press from Petra, Jordan. On the left, a photograph of the Monastery carved into a sandstone cliff above an empty desert valley. On the right, on aged paper, a carved multi color stamp of the same facade and the valley beyond it, captioned Petra, Jordan, No. 072, ancient, sandstone, silence.

How it works

Three steps, then it is yours

  1. 01Choose a photoConfirm where it was taken, or correct it.
  2. 02Wanderpress creates the stampCut for that place, two or three inks deep.
  3. 03Save it to your Field BookNumbered, filed, and kept for good.

The press

A stamp cut for one photograph

The photograph itself is never redrawn. It is laid down exactly as it came off the camera, and everything printed beside it is set in type.

Place
Lake Braies, ItalyConfirmed by you, never guessed.
Number
No. 041Given once, and kept for life.
Three words
mountains, lake, stillnessYours to change, always free.
When
2024. 05. 12Kept short, the way a field note is.

The field book

Your journey, bound in a Field Book.

Every press you create becomes part of one numbered collection: a personal archive of the places you have been and the moments worth keeping. Presses are filed into the trips they came from.

Numbers are permanent

A number is given only once a press exists, and it is never given again. Retire a press and the gap stays in the sequence. The gap is the collection telling the truth.

Adjusting

Move the stamp, change the paper, fix a word. Never costs a thing.

Your photograph

Kept whole, at full size, exactly as you took it.

Keeping

Poster, card, or a print ready page for paper.

Start your Field Book.

Wanderpress is coming to iPhone.

Coming to the App Store