ABOUT ME

I don’t keep a tally of places I’ve been or things I’ve done to impress anyone but getting to 72 countries did take some effort.

I’ve crossed oceans under sail, ran through the night just to see if I could, and climbed mountains for fun—not because I needed a trophy, but because I wanted to know what was on the other side of the challenge. I believe that curiosity is its own reward. That if answers come, from the bottom of a cave, a book or conversation, or somewhere I haven’t been before, the seeking is what’s made life interesting.

I’ve dabbled in many careers, not because I can’t commit, but because I refuse to stop learning. I can forage and build a fire just as comfortably as I can navigate a spreadsheet. I’m as at home in the wild as I am in a kitchen, a boardroom, or behind a camera.

Change is the only real constant. Rarely as we expect, sudden or far too slow, everything moves. That’s why I try to savor the good things while they last and value the gained perspective of the bad.

Photography is just one way I make sense of the world. So are travel, inquiry, cooking for the people I love, and I learned a lot from finding myself stuck at the Mozambique-Tanzania border when my tiny Yamaha 175cc finally gave out after 5,000 km of solo riding, or stepping onto a boat in Boston Harbor with no real plan, only to spend the next three years working on yachts that took me to the first 30ish countries on my list…

I love feeding people, I love understanding them. I’m not great at accepting help, but I’m working on it.

Love