Bio

When I was six years old, I held my dad's Fed 2 rangefinder for the first time. I pushed all the buttons, tried to take it apart, and had no idea what this strange black box was supposed to do.

At seventeen, while my classmates were getting dressed up for graduation parties, I took the money my parents gave me and bought a bus ticket to Italy and France instead. I had a basic film point-and-shoot and burned through rolls like a machine gun. My eyes were wide open, and I realised the road is my home.

Since then, I never really stopped. Always in motion, always dreaming, always shooting.

Today I have photographed in 80+ countries, from indigenous tribes in Papua New Guinea and the Eagle Hunters of Mongolia, to city streets in Chicago, Amsterdam, and Seoul. My work splits into two distinct bodies: documentary expeditions to remote and vanishing cultures, and street photography everywhere else.

Four years ago, I sold every piece of gear I owned - Canon bodies, Zeiss manual lenses, all of it - and bought a Leica MP. One camera, one lens. That decision changed everything.

My approach with people is simple: I take it slow. The camera appears gradually. Sometimes it takes five days before I make a single frame. I never ask people to pose. Candid is the only way I really know — close, respectful, without influence. Street photography - and my teachers John Free and Sebastião Salgado - taught me this. The two bodies of work feed each other in ways I'm still discovering.
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“Vanishing World” Expeditions

2026: Himba People, Namibia
2024: Basotho People, Lesotho
2022: Karakalpak, Uzbekistan
2022: The Nomads of Kyrgyzstan
2018: Haenyo divers, Jeju-do, Korea
2017: Nomad Tribes of Persia, Iran
2017: Haenyo Women, Jeju-do island, Korea
2016: Bedouin People of Sahara, Morocco
2015: Kazakh Eagle Hunters, Altain Mountain, Mongolia
2015: Tsaatan People, Mongolia
2015: Amarbayasgalant Tibetan Monks, Mongolia
2015: Indigenous Tribes of Papua New Guinea
2014: Lower Omo Valley Tribes, Ethiopia & Kenya
2013: Haenyo divers, Jeju-do, Korea
2012: Maasai Tribe in Ngorongoro & Serengeti, Tanzania
2011: Uros People from Lake Titicaca, Peru
2011: Qulla People, Bolivia, Chile & Argentina
2010: Kanak People from Ouvéa Island, New Caledonia
2009: Indigenous People of India

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