SHORT BIO | I studied at the Willem de Kooning Academy and the Emily Carr University of Art and Design, but my education really started much earlier, at home, with my father, who is also a photographer. Over the past twenty years, I’ve gained a wide range of experience working all over the world, enough to call myself all-round or somewhat confusingly versatile. As a practice, I love to wander through different cities, finding beauty in the mundane, merging images into more layered, narrative fine art compositions, aspiring, at least, to get them there. Creating stylistic portraits on location and documentary photography I feel is my biggest passion. Due to some difficult decisions and a fair amount of hard work, I now find myself freer than ever to invest in more than just images and a story. Working alongside the villagers around Angkor Wat, among many others, has shaped my belief that creativity flourishes when it is rooted in community, nature, and a slower pace of life.

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A journey that lasted nearly five years, through different communties around the world, led me to dream not only of images, but also of trees, homegrown vegetables, and rainwater harvesting. This period took me from a tribunal in Delhi to some of the largest communities on earth, and introduced me to many remarkable people. It left my partner and me with a strong sense of urgency, but also with clarity about how creativity, craft, and nature can meet in everyday life. Owning a plot of land and becoming more self-sufficient gradually became part of life as an independent creative. Rediscovering old Moorish irrigation channels and watching a once-dry piece of land burst into bloom has become a quiet kind of joy, one I love to share through the creation of a ‘Third Place’, a space rooted in real nature where people can slow down, reorient, and spark new ideas. But most of all, a place to refocus, something

I suspect many of us are quietly craving more and more.​

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Cheers!