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I make photographs and explore what they can teach us about being alive.

For more than thirty years, photography has helped me slow down, pay attention, and meet the world with curiosity rather than certainty.

Photography is my practice of seeing more clearly: the world around me, the people I encounter, and my own experience of being here.

Through photographs and mindful reflections, I explore presence, perception, and the quiet moments that remind us what it means to be fully alive

  • three pictures of august

    A walk with a new roll of Ilford film turned into three photographs that brought me back to why I started photographing in the first place — and a reflection on losing the thread between presence and content-creation, and finding your way back through play rather than discipline.

  • four pictures of july

    a snail gliding down a basement staircase, a mismatched shadow in London, a stump in Berlin already sprouting new life, and a tree in Kew Gardens after a forest bathing workshop. Together they trace one thread through July: slowing down isn’t a mood that arrives on its own, it’s a practice we keep choosing.

  • four pictures of june

    The photo I keep coming back to is of the plant by my own front door. No concept borrowed from somewhere else. Just light moving through leaves, and me, finally looking without trying to gain anything from it.

  • four pictures of may

    This May I took four photographs. None of them are remarkable. But each one asked me a question: They had nothing to do with technique yet and everything to do with choosing.

  • five pictures of april

    Creating from within has two dimensions. One is to be connected with our inner being. The other is to truly be in the moment — not observing it, but part of it. The photographer and the photograph become one thing. Reflections on mindfulness, photography, and the practice of presence.

  • five pictures of march

    Last month, my wife Rafaela said something profound that deeply resonated with me: “I want to create my reality from my heart, not from my mind.” In March I photographed a bench, a cherry plum tree, a canal, a swan disappearing into dark water, and some dried grass that moved like waves. Nothing dramatic. Just…

  • Embodied presence meditation

    Embodied presence is the practice of coming home to yourself. It serves as a foundation for self-awareness, and the capacity to meet life with clarity and equanimity.

  • four pictures from february

    In this post I share four photographs from February and what they revealed to me about presence, safety, and the quiet tension between wanting to be seen and allowing yourself to simply be.

  • five photos from january

    January is over, and with it comes the usual moment to review New Year’s resolutions. I create themes for each year, and this year’s theme is: A commitment to my photography!

  • a revelation in double exposure

    This post is me thinking out loud about serendipity,. We’re living in a world where AI can generate anything on command, perfectly mediocre,, zero risk.There’s no adventure in that.