Since my earliest years I have always been attracted to nature, authenticity, physical challenges and discovery. I particularly like to photograph and film humanity interacting with nature and the environment in a multitude of ways.
I don't have any formal training in photography but it was one of my early hobbies. I got a fully manual SLR when I was 15 to learn the craft properly. As a teenager landscapes and nature were my main quarry, in my early 20s I took interest in travelling and photographing in remote locations: Mongolia, Nepal, Bangladesh, Taiwan, India, Australia, China. I published the imagery in travel guide books, newspapers and had features in geographic magazines. This soon evolved into a greater interest in the human aspect of photography whether street, portraiture or documentary.
In 2002 I won first prize in the colour category of the WHO photo competition with an image of a paralysed man and his wife at a rehabilitation centre for paralysed people in Bangladesh.
This was followed by employment at UNESCO HQ in Paris as official photographer and later at the OECD.
I began freelancing for Bloomberg News in 2004 in Paris and have completed corporate and editorial a
