In celebration of summer holidays, Document 12 contributors bring us to their favorite places

Alasdair McLellan “Top Withens is a ruin on the Yorkshire Moors. It is meant to be the inspiration for the house Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte.”

Left: Emily Manning “I took this photograph of my brother Conor at Julius, NYC’s oldest gay bar. Con first brought me there, and to many other cherished spots.” Right: Tom Ordoyno “Hydra is an island without cars. I like it be- cause it’s small, self-contained, and a great place to refocus.”

Left: Richard Bush “London is my home and my favorite city. I’ve seen it change beyond my imagination over the years, yet steadfastly retain its grit.” Right: Divya Bala “The Bronte baths in Sydney, Australia, is the first place I go when I get off the plane. The seawater has magical, jetlag-healing powers.” Image credit: Akila Berjaoi.

Left: Craig McDean “Anywhere in the world, on the back of a BMW 1200GS, that is my happy place.” Right: Andreas Laszlo Konrath “I try to visit Big Sur every few years to camp and hike. It’s one of my favorite places in the United States.”

Joan Jonas “I took this photograph when I first visited Iceland in 1984. I find the moss-covered hills particularly beautiful, and Iceland happens to be one of my favorite countries.”

Clockwise from left: Max Pearmain “Clignancourt flea market in Paris is one of my favorite places.” Mark Smith “My happy place is Salts Mill in West Yorkshire, England. It’s a massive former textile mill and the jewel in the crown of the now UNESCO protected village.” Édouard Louis “This is Ostia Antica, near Roma. You can feel the lost prestige.” Alessandro Sartori “My favorite place is Alfama in Lisbon, Portugal. I feel a good energy with the food, the people, the colors, and the light.”

Left: Fereshteh Forough “When we arrived in Herat city, where my parents are from, in 2002 after the fall of the Taliban, we used to go to Takht-e-Safar Park with our car and look out over the city.” Right: Howardena Pindell “This Shinto temple houses my favorite work of art, the scroll Heike Nokyo.”

Nicholas Alan Cope “My great-grandparents built a small cottage on this small lake in Northern Michigan. Every summer we spend a week there. It’s the best week of the year.”

Left: Lucie Meier “Zermatt is where I grew up. The presence of this majestic mountain is very powerful and puts everything into perspective.” Right: Luke Meier “This was taken on Cypress Mountain in Vancouver, B.C., by my wife, Lucie. It’s a short drive from where I grew up. At night, the mountain looked like candy.”

Left: Katharina Grosse “To lie in warm dry grass and see the sea at the turn of the head.” Right: Lorna Simpson “Half Moon Bay, Turks and Caicos.”

Left: Jeremy Everett “In the desert outside of Bishop, California, locals made these raw tubs out of natural hot springs, open to anyone for free.” Right: Gary David Moore “This was my view on my first night in Tokyo a few years ago. I love everything about Japan.”

Yoann Lemoine “Babylonstoren is a farm and hotel located 45 minutes from Cape Town. This place is a Garden of Eden.”

Left: Cody Delistraty “Here, outside my first apartment on the rue Oberkampf in Paris, where, in so many ways, my life began.” Right: Andrew Sawyer “Some of my favorite memories are associated with my family’s beach cottage in North Carolina’s Outer Banks.”

Left: Jodie Barnes “This hotel in Puglia, Italy, called La Peschiera, used to be an old fishery. All you have is the sea in front of you, with the fish pools turned into huge swimming pools behind.” Right: Sam Rock “I haven’t found my favorite spot yet. I’m always looking for new places.”

Stef Mitchell “This is in the town of Mauléon in southwest France where I usually spend time over the summer. When I’m there the only thing I’m concerned about is what time the bakery closes.”

Left: Luke Gilford “To me paradise is being in nature with my family and friends. This photo of my parents and me in the woods on my first Christmas represents this feeling.” Right: Camille Bidault–Waddington “This was our family house called Le Varoncier. I spent hours sit- ting on the huge staircase talking with my grandfather.”

Left: Daisy Prince “This is a field near my parents’ house in Virginia. The line from Americathe Beautiful, “purple mountain majesties,” must have been written near there.” Right: Arnaud Lajeunie “Estonia is one of my favorite summer destinations. This country is a hidden gem, with the best vodka in the world.”

Anders Sølvsten Thomsen “Here is one of my favorite places in the world; my childhood home. It was an old farm and it was so beautiful.”

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In celebration of summer holidays, Document 12 contributors bring us to their favorite places

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