One of the things I love most about photography is that it slows you down. Not artificially. Not in a forced or curated way. It simply changes the way you move through the world. You stop rushing. You notice details. You pay attention to light, texture, movement, architecture, and people. Photography teaches observation, and observation …
For years, I avoided Brazil. Not because I didn’t want to go. Quite the opposite. Brazil fascinated me. The music, the coastline, the history, the architecture, the photography opportunities, the energy of Rio de Janeiro itself. It all pulled at my imagination for a very long time. But everywhere I traveled throughout South America, other …
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There are places I visit and places I return to. Cape Cod falls firmly in the second category…and has for most of my adult life. I’ve camped there in August heat and in the dead of winter, stayed in friends’ homes on the bay side, and spent nights in places where the sheets were ironed …
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For the past fourteen years, Hawaii has been more than a destination for me—it has become a place of rhythm, reflection, and creative energy. It’s where I go to reset, to explore, and to capture moments that feel timeless. Somewhere between the sway of the palms and the glow of the Pacific at sunset, I …
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There are photographs you plan… and then there are photographs that find you. This was one of those. I had just left the World Scotch Tasting Experience in Edinburgh—warm, relaxed, and probably walking just a little slower than usual—and was making my way a few blocks back to the The Balmoral Hotel. It was winter. …
There are photographs you spend months planning — the location scouted, the light calculated, the composition rehearsed. And then there are the ones that simply happen, if you’re paying attention. This image, made along the Malecón in Havana during the summer of 2017, belongs entirely to the second category. It is, without question, one of …
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There is a kind of photography that travel writers and Instagram briefly describe as “discovering” a place. You arrive somewhere new, you photograph it intensely for a few days, and you leave with a portfolio of images that capture what the place looks like to a stranger encountering it for the first time. I have …
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I’ve shared this same composition in summer before, but with winter upon us I wanted to offer a glimpse of what Yosemite National Park and the Gates of the Valley likely look like this morning. Returning to the same places in different seasons is one of the great privileges of photography—watching the environment transform completely …
By the time I arrived in Cairo, Egypt in late 2014, I had already been traveling for months—moving across countries and cultures with little more than a camera and a curious heart. But Egypt felt different from anywhere else I had been. Cairo is a city of powerful contrasts—ancient yet alive, chaotic yet sacred, worn …
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The Hammock, Cozumel I made this photograph in late 2012, on a cruise with a group of friends. One of our stops was Cozumel — an island known for its turquoise water, coral reefs, and the particular kind of unhurried rhythm that only certain places in the Caribbean ever seem to get right. When we …