The too dazzling residue of travel captured by New York photographer Colin Sassingham. It is a book that makes you want to travel irresistibly.

I don't want to say anything selfish about other people's photos, and I am not qualified to do so, but I like to look at photos. I think, dream, and remember many things from a single photograph. I used to get a camera and take pictures of myself while traveling, but I was always disappointed with the prints I received after developing the film. The photos I took were so far removed from the impressions I had in my memory that I quietly put the camera down. It seems that photography is not for me, and I would rather write down the scene and my feelings than take a picture of it, which would be closer to the scene at that time.

Colin's photos are different. As a skater, his photos remind me of a time that will never come back. It was a time when I was still young, when I would wander around and dream about various things, and then wake up from those dreams. I was surprised to find myself trembling at the beauty of the scenery, my heart shaking at things that didn't matter. Those were the days when I thought I was in the middle of the world one moment and the loneliest person in the universe the next.

I'm sure those times are what it means to grow up. I always think that photographs transcend time. No matter when or where the photo was taken, it creates a moment that connects you to an emotion that you have forgotten even when you had it. And photographers are very good at capturing those moments. They capture it and draw the viewer into the story that unfolds behind it. I saw the moments through the viewfinder of Colin's eyes, whom I had only met once before, and I saw my own past on the page. The Indiana sunsets that Colin saw became the sunsets I once saw in Texas, the sentiments of days gone by, my own.

And it was the closest thing I could do to travel now that this freedom of movement has been banned and the act of travel has become more expensive and unaffordable than anything else.