Partners in life and photography, Polish-born Irmina Walczak and her Brazilian husband Sávio Freire set out for a life on wheels with their two children, Yasmin, aged six, and Kajetan, aged two, and never looked back.

The year was 2017 and the pair had committed to personally delivering their photobook, Portraits for Yaya, to crowdfunding supporters: “We felt really grateful and happy and full of desire to celebrate it.” So off they went in an “ordinary car”, travelling around Brazil for six months, visiting friends, meeting the public, and ultimately catching the nomadic bug.

Jumping continents, the family crossed the seas to Europe, where a more structured nomadic lifestyle began. There, their third daughter, Elinor, arrived, and the family invested in a 1983 motorhome, which they spent four months renovating. “None of this was entirely planned,” Walczak reflects. “At first, the idea was to settle in Poland, my homeland. But I soon realized it wasn’t exactly where I wanted to live. It was 13 years after I left for Brazil, and nothing, not even myself, was the same.”