Originally from South Africa, I started meddling with serious photography in 1986 when my father passed on his old Asahi Pentax SLR and a few lenses to me. Using this camera, I spent a few years exploring and teaching myself photography in its basic, raw form, later upgrading to a used Pentax ME Super, which I continued to use into the early 1990’s.
Being a student at the time, the cost of film and developing proved prohibitive and forced me to scale down my photography ambitions for a few years to follow. Once digital photography started taking off in a meaningful way, I started exploring its possibilities again in 2003, at first using a 3MP compact camera, and was hooked ever since. My fascination, and new-found freedom with this media, coupled with the rise of digital darkroom technology, took off to a point where photography is now once again a serious, focused indulgence.
My work is mainly inspired by a fascination with our “human condition”, capturing people and their daily lives within different cultural, religious and social environments. I’m especially drawn to the real, often rustic lives of people earning their living on streets around the world, the results expressed through a blend of street life-, travel-, documentary- and street portraiture genres, with a few random opportunistic captures and artistic projects in between.
I strive to post-process my images towards a distinctive, personal style, as an equally important part of my workflow, which is constantly developing and refined over time. By processing images in a consistent style, a number of different collections and visual narratives can be made from my collective work, while still maintaining a coherent, matching style throughout.
Having visited over 30 countries to date, I’ve also lived and worked as a practicing architect in South Africa, the UAE, Qatar, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and India.
FOR INQUIRIES please email me at [email protected]
Being a student at the time, the cost of film and developing proved prohibitive and forced me to scale down my photography ambitions for a few years to follow. Once digital photography started taking off in a meaningful way, I started exploring its possibilities again in 2003, at first using a 3MP compact camera, and was hooked ever since. My fascination, and new-found freedom with this media, coupled with the rise of digital darkroom technology, took off to a point where photography is now once again a serious, focused indulgence.
My work is mainly inspired by a fascination with our “human condition”, capturing people and their daily lives within different cultural, religious and social environments. I’m especially drawn to the real, often rustic lives of people earning their living on streets around the world, the results expressed through a blend of street life-, travel-, documentary- and street portraiture genres, with a few random opportunistic captures and artistic projects in between.
I strive to post-process my images towards a distinctive, personal style, as an equally important part of my workflow, which is constantly developing and refined over time. By processing images in a consistent style, a number of different collections and visual narratives can be made from my collective work, while still maintaining a coherent, matching style throughout.
Having visited over 30 countries to date, I’ve also lived and worked as a practicing architect in South Africa, the UAE, Qatar, Vietnam, Thailand, Malaysia and India.
FOR INQUIRIES please email me at [email protected]