Photography allowed me to experiment more and became an outlet for the thoughts, ideas, and concepts I wanted to express. I consider myself to be a travelling soul, someone that enjoys jumping from one place to the next to see what story is there to be told, whose life I can portray or document, and in the meantime, my vision can be expressed limitlessly. In fact, this may be my favourite aspect of photography: one never knows what the result will be. This infinite vision also means that as every person is different, every place has a different vibe or back story, and every photographed person has a different perspective of who I am as a person, the result greatly depends on how much they believe in my work, my ability and hence the extent to which they let me experiment. Connections are built and creativity emerges from the final pictures the same way that while I travel or work on my personal projects, deeper connections emerge between the people I meet, the places I visit, and the events I experience. Ultimately, this is how impactful photography takes place– through vulnerability, connections, and ultimately, depth.
Three keywords that describe me well are: Curious, empathetic
and visionary.
I am, at my core, a dreamer and a wanderer, someone who finds a strange kind of home in departure gates, first mornings in unfamiliar cities, and the particular light of a place I've never seen before. Art, in every form it takes, is the thread that runs through all of it: paintings, film, music, the small handmade details of a culture I'm just beginning to understand. It is, I think, the same instinct that draws me to photograph love the way I do, always looking for the story underneath the surface.
And so, you may gather that I am a person of constant change and movement. I need a new stimulus on a daily basis, and I am passionate about art in all its forms. I am inspired by nature, paintings, cinema, books, open-minded people and many more, and am compulsively curious. Learning something new or an interesting fact that makes my vision even more unique is something I cherish deeply. My path has taken me across five continents, and for the past seven years I have lived as a full-time traveller, splitting my time between Europe and Asia depending on where a story, a season or a feeling pulls me next.
