Behind the Smoke

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

Indonesia | Monday, January 7, 2013 | 5 photos

When you chose to follow who you are, don’t look for the path well trodden - choose to walk the path that does not exist. –(Amir Zehi)

My vivid mind is always spinning ideas, front pages and color grades. I am constantly looking for magic to touch my pictures, for the realignment of light to truly capture life’s purity. When I shoot, I feel that I am exactly in the right space and the right time. My mind is clear and synced to my work.

Nation Geographic had a huge impact on my worldview through sharp reportages and impactful images. Through National Geographic, I am inspired to tell unique stories that matter and to translate the rawness of human life and nature into images.

The World Nomads Travel Photography Scholarship is the perfect mentoring program for me, as it would allow me to assist other brilliant and impassioned photographers that choose to make a living through photographs.

I believe magic exists. It lies within the world and is available to me in every moment. Through photography I am able to empower myself to inspire, educate, contradict or simply open people’s eyes. Behind our visible reality lies another truth.