Photography Collection from 2007–2009

This book has existed in one form or another for almost two decades.

Many of the photographs were made between 2007 and 2009, yet I never felt ready to put them together. Not because I doubted the images themselves, but because I was never quite sure what they meant as a collection.

Over the years I worked in different fields, lived in different countries, started companies, changed careers, and continued photographing whenever I could. The photographs remained, but the book always stayed unfinished.

Looking back, I realise that the project was never really about creating a portfolio or documenting my travels.

It became a way of holding on to a particular period of life, one defined by curiosity, movement, and an ongoing desire to understand the world around me.

Many of the images in this book have been sitting in archives, hard drives, folders, and contact sheets for years. Some have been published before. Many have not.

This book is simply an attempt to gather them in one place.

Not as a statement. Not as a conclusion.

But as a record of a body of work that continues to shape how I see the world today.

For many years, I thought this book was about photography.

Today, I think it is more about the places and moments that stayed with me long after the photographs were taken.

The images in this book were made between 2007 and 2008 across different parts of the world, including China, Pakistan, Vietnam, Japan, New Zealand, Iceland, and other countries. They show landscapes, cities, roads, mountains, rivers, people, and everyday scenes encountered while traveling.

At the time, I was spending much of my life moving between countries, cultures, projects, and assignments. Photography became a way of paying attention to the world around me and documenting what I experienced along the way.

Many of my strongest memories are connected to places far away from cities and large crowds. Walking along remote roads in Taiwan, hiking in the mountains of Pakistan, exploring northern China, climbing volcanic landscapes in Japan, traveling through Iceland, or spending time in the wilderness of New Zealand.

What drew me to these places was not only their visual beauty. It was also their clarity.

In nature, things tend to be exactly what they appear to be. A mountain is a mountain. A river is a river. A storm is a storm. There is very little interpretation required. The landscape does not need to explain itself.

I have always been interested in observing people, places, and situations. Photography gave me a reason to slow down, look more carefully, and spend time in environments that often felt more honest and direct than everyday social life.

The photographs collected in this book are not intended as a comprehensive travel record. They are a selection of moments, places, and observations that remained important to me years after they were made.

Some images were taken while working. Others were made while wandering without a destination. Together, they represent a period of exploration, curiosity, and movement through a rapidly changing world.

More than anything, this book is a record of how the world looked through my eyes at that time and of the places that made the strongest impression on me.

If this book inspires someone to travel, photograph, or look more closely at the world, I am grateful for that.

But that is not why it exists.

Most of these photographs were made between 2007 and 2009. It took me almost twenty years to bring them together in this form.

Over those years I started new projects, followed new ideas, changed directions, and often moved on before finishing what I had already begun.

This book reminded me of the value of completing something. Not because it is perfect, but because unfinished things have a way of staying with us.

Simply because some things deserve to be finished. If there is one thing I hope this book encourages, it is this:

Whatever you started, finish it. Even if it is small. Even if nobody sees it. Some things deserve an ending.

This book is one of them.

I’ve always believed that the way we train our eyes is far more important than the equipment we use. Cameras evolve, but the ability to truly see the world only comes through curiosity, patience, and practice. This is the equipment I have used for the photographs in this book.

Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel XTi) Canon EOS 5D Mark II

Canon EF 28mm ƒ1.8 USM Canon EF 35mm ƒ1.4L USM Canon EF 50mm ƒ1.8 II

C A M E R A S
Canon EOS 400D (Digital Rebel XTi)
Canon EOS 5D Mark II
L E N S E S
Canon EF 28mm ƒ1.8 USM
Canon EF 35mm ƒ1.4L USM
Canon EF 50mm ƒ1.8 II