Zaida Ben-Yusuf - Travelling

Travelling

In 1903, Zaida Ben-Yusuf travelled to Japan, where she toured Yokohama, Kobe, Nagasaki, Kyoto, where she rented a house; Tokyo and Nikko. This tour formed the basis for a series of four illustrated articles, "Japan Through My Camera", published in the Saturday Evening Post from 23 April 1904. In February 1905, her essay on Kyoto appeared in Booklovers Magazine and Leslie's Monthly Magazine published an illustrated article on"Women in Japan". She also wrote about Japanese architecture and lectured on the subject, with some of her photographs illustrating a January 1906 article by Katharine Budd in Architectural Record, for which she submitted an article, "The Period of Daikan", which appeared the next month.

In 1906, she published three photographs from a visit to Capri in the September issue of Photo Era, and in 1908, wrote three essays on life in England for the Saturday Evening Post. She returned to New York in November 1908, but was back in London the following year. The London phone book for 1911 listed her as a photographer in Chelsea. In 1912, Sadakichi Hartmann wrote that Zaida had given up photography, and was living in the South Sea Islands.

On 15 September, following the outbreak of World War I and the German invasion of France, Zaida Ben-Yusuf returned to New York from Paris, where she had been living at the time. She applied for naturalization in 1919, describing herself as a photographer, and taking ten years off her age. She continued to travel, visiting Cuba in 1920 and Jamaica in 1921.