Blog

Me & my vision

A short map of how I see and what I believe: vision over the camera, the minor key over loud joy, water, meditation — and Baudelaire's clouds.
Shooting weddings in Thailand

A Thai wedding blends the sacred and the warm — a temple blessing, real tears, an elephant nearby. Years of notes on staying out of the way and catching the real thing.
Fast lenses & background blur

Why a melted-away background reads as “expensive” — and how I match the lens to the task, from the hardest full-length portrait to the common over-blur mistake.
How I photograph children

Photographing children is nine parts psychology, one part technique: first their trust, then catching them at play — and only then the light and the lens.
How to Choose a Photographer the Right Way

How I — a working pro — would choose a photographer: a seven-step algorithm, the gross portfolio mistakes to catch, and how to tell whether they're worth the money.
Bestiary: primates

The most mirror-like corner of the zoo: monogamous gibbons who mate for life, matriarchal lemurs and macaques, and free-loving squirrel monkeys — primates whose family dramas are too easy to recognise.
Light of the golden & blue hour

The best light of the day lives in two short windows: the golden hour before sunset for people, the blue hour after it for architecture and landscape. Both are fickle — here's how I work with them.
The craft & the reality of the job

From outside, the job is sunsets and models; the underside is mud, wind and gear pushed to its limit. And behind every “magic” frame is not Photoshop or pricey kit, but catching everything right on the spot.
A Photographer's Karma

On a photographer's life and work — and its karmic fallout: the five stages of creation, the law of cause and effect, and the danger of becoming a Dark Messenger.
Thailand. Faith is everywhere. Pt.1

Faith is everywhere in Thailand. Part 1: the temples of Bangkok — Wat Arun, Erawan, the Trimurti — and the Trinity that shows through Buddhist and Hindu form.
Thailand. Faith is everywhere. Pt.2

Faith is everywhere in Thailand. Part 2: Thai pantheism, the temples and crematoria around Pattaya, the White Temple — gods and superheroes in one world.
Laos. Journey to yourself.

Laos through my lens — the temples, monks and festivals of Vientiane, and the spiritual and historical layers that show through the materiality of our world.
Birds of the Sunlit Garden

On a luxury-villa shoot I noticed a strange table — and only later realized I'd photographed the bird Sirin. On the symbol that shows through a chance frame.
Sally Mann's photography

On Sally Mann and her album “Immediate Family”: a century-old large-format camera, the inner fullness of a frame, and the spirit of contradiction around talent.