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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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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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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In the summer of 2014, I arrived at Inle Lake almost by accident—and it ended up being one of the most meaningful places I’ve ever photographed. Myanmar (formerly Burma) had only recently begun opening its borders after decades of isolation. Tourism was still limited, infrastructure was minimal, and much of the country felt untouched by …
The sun had just slipped below the horizon when I made this photograph. El Morro Castle stood watch over the Malecón as the last light softened across the water and the Caribbean broke against the rocks below. I was there on a sailing trip with a group of friends, and that evening carried the rare, …
I took this long-exposure photograph in Amsterdam’s Red Light District years ago, back when I was wandering Europe with my camera and a curious mind. I set up on the edge of the canal, wanting to capture both sides of the street in one frame — the neon glow, the reflections, the movement of people …
In the fall of 2014, I found myself several months into a journey that had already taken me from Alaska to Hawaii, across New Zealand and Australia, through Asia, and into the heart of Europe. By September, I had landed in Vienna. One evening, after wandering through the streets of the city, I walked into …