Victor M. Pérez - En la playa

The journey made easier

Victor M. Pérez with the Leica Q3

11/11/2025

Travel Teaches the Eye

A close friend of Victor M. Pérez liked to remind him that the best thing about travelling was the company one kept. He would agree with that sentiment, noting that travelling was never easy, whether it involved working with colleagues, taking a short break or holiday with family and friends, or simply moving through the larger journey of life. He explained that there were always unexpected events, unfamiliar places, and strange encounters, as well as technical and logistical challenges in environments that could not be fully known or controlled. He believed that this was perhaps why he had always loved travelling so much: his curiosity pushed him to discover and to turn the unknown into something personal.

For Victor, photographic travel presented its own difficulties. Approaching photography, means confronting unfamiliar and uncontrolled technical and artistic situations — particularly in street photography — along with practical complications and many unforeseen circumstances. Good photographs do not come instantly, nor do images that could truly be regarded as one’s own appear without time, patience, and reflection.

The Leica Q has really taught me to be myself as a photographer. It has taught me technique while I have developed my way of seeing and approaching travel (all travel, really).

Victor M. Pérez

Victor M. Pérez - Mujer en las rocas con sombrero

Víctor M. Pérez

An Easier Journey

In this selection of photographs taken with the Leica Q3 around the world, from Bali to Vancouver, via Madrid, Mumbai, London, and Seville, Victor has chosen complex and challenging street scenes to illustrate how the Leica Q3 has helped him bring harmony to them, both technically and artistically. In doing so, it has also made his journey much easier.

Apart from my family, friends and colleagues (people are always the most important thing), my Leica Q3 is my best travelling companion.

Victor M. Pérez

Victor M. Pérez

Born in Madrid (Spain), he is based in Doha (Qatar) since 2021. He is a partner in an international professional services firm and only discovered that he is a photographer in his early 40’s. Since then he takes it very seriously and professionally, trying to uphold the values and respect for photography that I have learned from great photographers and mentors.