This is a new and re-designed edition of Mary Ellen Mark’s debut book Passport, first published in 1974 by Lustrum Press, New York. The publication features a collection of Mark’s early work, shot on her journeys between 1963 and ’73, mainly in Turkey where she traveled for a year on a Fulbright scholarship. These photographs quickly drew attention for their persuasive humanism and Mark’s ability to avoid cliché when depicting cultures exotic to her own, a challenge she navigated by aiming, in her words, to capture “something that evokes a certain kind of memory or response that’s universal”—be the subject immigrants on their way to a new life in Istanbul, bathers in the Ganges, or a man and his monkey begging in Kathmandu. For this Steidl edition, the original 56-page travel diary has been extended to 120 pages and features an additional text by Ralph Gibson, founder of Lustrum Press—a worthy update for this classic publication.