Christine Armbruster

Every year for the last four years I have been able to travel to Greece as a seakayaking guide, able to create documentary photography on the side. It’s been a strange summer not being able to return to Greece. I’ve been craving salty cheese, piles of olives, and the sun a bit more than usual. I keep finding myself making Mediterranean meals and sitting in the sunniest spot I can find, trying desperately to simulate Greece.

For the past eight years, I have worked as a guide for the Girl Scouts of America within their Destinations programs (you can find a cool article I wrote about it here!). It has resulted in over twenty five guided trips around the world. Some were photography workshops, others were a bit more wild— like horseback riding in Mongolia. But Greece always held a soft spot in my heart. Maybe it was the multiple times I went to the same small island (here’s a post from 2017 of the same Greece trip), or the lovely community I was able to get to know and photograph year after year. Regardless, I will still continue to sit here eating feta and drinking Greek frappe’s until I can return once more. Maybe if I start to get carried away, I’ll even sit in a kayak in my living room and watch some GoPro YouTube videos of seakayaking.