Behind the image…

During the first years with my Minolta film camera, my main objective was to master techniques using light, composition, and colours – critical skills in achieving the most impressive images. After years of travelling for work, I became increasingly amazed by the rich, varied, and eclectic scenes I witnessed and wanted to document them to show these beautiful and unfamiliar environments and spaces to my friends and family at home. I felt the need to capture the emotional elements behind the pictures and to have the images function as a window into a storytelling experience. Only very recently did I decide to share this imagery more widely, hoping to give a public audience a sense of being in the moment with me, enabling them to be virtual travel companions experiencing the same emotions I did when I captured the scenes.

Every time I shoot, the target is to tell these sacred stories through a picture. Stories and emotional quality are what drive me. Whether it’s spending a day riding through the dusty hot countryside, walking around the crowded streets of a city, ascending a deserted mountain, or taking in stunning landscapes, I’m continually motivated to capture everyone and everything present, and to tell its story faithfully.

Everywhere and everyone has an important story, and I love to be someone who not just tells them, but capturing their moments more fully through emotional images that live on. The purpose is to make people feel like they were there, to be a part of the photo story I am telling.

In a world of uninteresting, trivial and “perfect” photos, please allow me to leave you with images that make you feel their emotions and live on in that instant, forever.