We board a small boat and push out through the pack ice, the hull cutting slowly through frozen slabs that grind and shift around us. It is surreal — this white, broken landscape stretching in every direction, the cold coming up off the ice in waves. The deckhand stands ready at the bow with fish, […]
I’ll be honest with you: I am not an animal photographer. Landscapes and cityscapes — that’s my world. But that is exactly why I am here, standing in the frozen stillness of Hokkaido in the middle of winter, camera in hand, completely out of my comfort zone. There’s something else I should tell you, while […]
I stand on the deck, in the front of the ship, apart from one or 2 other die hard photographers I am alone outside. The wind blows and cuts into my face, yes it is cold, but I don’t really mind. I dig my chin deeper into the collar of my bright orange (such an […]
How to prepare for an unexpected trip
Let us all go to Venice, I would say! It’s been on my to do list all of my life, but my pigeon phobia made me postpone it eternally. Or not quite. From September 30 until October 21 some of my works will be on show in The Room Contemporary Art Space. If that isn’t […]
It seems ages ago, it was ages ago, when I was actually traveling in the land of Volcanoes and bears, also known as Kamchatka. “Kam-What?” Is what I heard all the time. Kamchatka is the name, the Russian Far East is the place. It is ‘the other side of the world’ for us, at least, […]