Specializing in documentary and travel photography, I spend several months each year shooting stories around the world that spark my curiosity and imagination.

My work has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, Double Take, Discovery Online, Business Week, New York Magazine, Glamour UK, The Scientist, Blue Magazine, GQ, The Robb Report, The International Herald Tribune, the Village Voice, The New York Post, The Daily News, The Rough Guide to the USA, and other publications.


I graduated from the photojournalism program at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism in 1995. That summer, a partner and I drove obsessively around America picking up hitchhikers and taking them wherever they wanted to go and videotaping them along the way (nothing kinky) for an HBO internet documentary called Road Kill. About the same time, my first professionally published photo landed on the front page of a New York tabloid after I crashed a private event honoring Fidel Castro in New York and grabbed some quick pictures of El Presidente.

The next year brought some synchronicity when I took up an invitation to photograph a pioneering online expedition to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. We brought along a satellite phone the size of a sarcophagus and a rented digital camera worth more than our collective life savings. The ensuing misadventures where so spectacular that the group decided to form a company.

In 1997, with four other journalists, I co-founded Candide Media Works, an online documentary studio inspired equally by our passion for foreign affairs, technological experimentation, and by generous venture capital. With Candide, I photographed, co-wrote and co-produced several international and even interplanetary projects. These included: Made in China, Peking to Paris, and Live from Mars.

After leaving the company in 2001, I returned to Baluchistan, a semi-lawless semi-wasteland through which I had briefly driven four years earlier, and spent several months photographing that region of Pakistan. While shooting a story about former mujahadeen commanders living in Peshawar, I became acquainted with supporters of Zaher Shah, the ex-king of Afghanistan and began a project about the Afghan royal family.

Most recently, I’ve been working on theatrical documentaries for IMAX including Under the Sea 3-D and an upcoming film about the Hubble space telescope. Currently I’m producing my first film for IMAX about orphanages for endangered species.