(CNN) — Seven years ago, American Libby Green was traveling with her mom in Italy and France, capping off their trip with a visit to the southern French Mediterranean resort city of Nice before flying back to the US.
Meanwhile, German-born Marcel Gnauk and a friend were also in Nice, attending the Crossover Festival, a celebration of eclectic music.
Walking on the city’s beachfront Promenade des Anglais, Marcel spotted Libby wielding a Hasselblad, a traditional medium-format film camera, and couldn’t resist approaching her.
“I love old cameras, Hasselblad, that’s amazing,” he recalls telling her.
The pair chatted about the camera and travel, and he invited her to go to the music festival that evening. The next day, Libby flew back to the US, but they kept in contact.
Less than a month later Libby traveled to Italy, and she and Marcel, who was working in Switzerland, met up again.
“That’s when I think we knew, okay, this is something special, something serious,” says Libby.
In 2022, Libby and Marcel recorded sounds in Bangkok’s historic railway station.
Libby & Marcel
Marcel then visited Libby in Los Angeles, where she was working in the film industry after studying cinematography, and they traveled together for a few weeks around California.
By that point they knew they wanted to be together and travel the world.
So, Marcel returned to Switzerland, Libby stayed in LA, working for another five months to save money.
They bought a campervan, and in January 2015 Marcel met Libby at Zurich Airport.
“In less than a year we had quit our jobs, and sold everything we owned basically,” says Libby. They then spent four months traveling around Europe. A campervan trip in Japan followed, then time in Bali, Taiwan, Cambodia and Malaysia.
In the years since their passion has grown, not just for each other, but for a world of sounds, recorded with their high-end microphones, and shared on their social media.
The couple turned a practical issue of recording sound for a travel video they were making in Cambodia into a full time business that sustains their digital nomadic life. But it took some time before they discovered their calling.
‘Everything became alive’
In the early years of their relationship, sharing their travel experiences online became part of their routine.
Libby is skilled using a camera. But they struggled to find a focus.
“There was Libby and Marcel trying to be food bloggers,” recalls Libby.
“It was a disaster,” adds Marcel. “But it was a…
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