A behind the scenes look into a stills and video assignment that I shot in Hanoi for the San Francisco based sustainable fashion company Everlane to document the production line of their Tread sneakers. It was interesting assignment where I shot time-lapse, looped videos and documentary style stills.
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Client Stories | Sonova | Hear The World Foundation | NGO Photography and Video Production | Vietnam
A behind the scenes look into an incredible project that I shot in Hanoi in early 2019 focusing on the life changing experience that ten children in Vietnam would be given by Hear the World, Sonova and the Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss. Tung Lam was born with a hearing loss so severe, that the hearing aids he had been wearing before surgery were not sufficient for him to develop spoken language. Cochlear implants were his only hope to learn to listen and speak.
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Client Stories | The Strand Cruise | Commercial Hospitality Photography and Video Production | Myanmar
A behind the scenes look into a stills and video project that I shot on The Strand Cruise in Myanmar in early 2019. In this post I explain how I approach my hospitality photography from styling and furniture arrangement, to lighting and my approach to getting around a fairly tricky post production problem. There's also a pretty good lesson about what not to do with a drone.
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Taken at the Ka Htain festival in Hsipaw, Myanmar. The green wings of this young girls costume caught my eye as she was performing the traditional Kinnara & Kinnari bird dance with three other dancers. The Kinnari is depicted as a half-bird, half-woman creature with the head, torso, and arms of a woman and the wings, tail and feet of a swan. Looking for a more interesting angle I circled behind the young girl and then mid dance and for the briefest of moments she leaned back towards me, my instincts kicked in and I framed and focussed and fired one frame before she continued on her way. Canon 5D Mk II, 35mm f1.4L lens, 1/5000 sec at f1.4, ISO 200.
Tales of a Travel Photographer | Chasing the Light Magazine
In early 2017 I was asked to write some words about my career for an online magazine called "Chasing the Light" which is run by renowned travel and landscape photographer David Noton and in this post I share what I wrote. I explain my career up until 2017, how I ended up living and working as a Vietnam based photographer and I discuss many of my favourite images taken over the years in Bangladesh, Syria, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam.
Read MoreApril 27, 2016. The sun rises over the drought ravaged rice fields near Ba Tri City in Ben Tre Province. With no rain since last October, many of the rice fields are cracked and have dried out. Rice fields in Ba Tri typically gets 3 harvests per year, but the first one spoiled due to the lack of rain.
Drought in the Mekong Delta
In early 2016, the Mekong Delta experienced what was its worst drought in almost a century which was caused by the El Nino weather phenomenon. Quinn Ryan Mattingly and I decided to spend some time down there to see and photograph it ourselves and this post details some of the images and stories that I captured.
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