There are at least three things I didn’t know about pirates: One: The Jolly Roger was a symbol of not so much a threat to others (“you are going to die”), but more of sheer defiance (“we know we are going to die”). Pirates knew that they had signed their own death warrants once on land, and…

I had a bit of a flirtation with AI early on. It was fun and exciting to play with it and see if I could push the limits of what I myself could do. I was inspired by Jonas Peterson – a photographer and an early Midjourney adopter who seemingly mastered the art of AI (and made a…

A very practical nitty-gritty post.

Some thoughts on content production vs creativity vs mental health.

Some thoughts on personal branding and the fracturing of self.

I wrote this piece several years ago for the now-defunct online magazine The Kindred Voice. Here, I describe events that happened around 2014-2016 as I battled with Graves Disease – and the lack of awareness and understanding of it from people around me. With December being Graves Disease…

What – or who – do you imagine when you think about “an activist”? A young person screaming through a loud speaker? A protestor throwing orange paint at a Mona Lisa? Someone blocking a highway? Someone on a hunger strike? An old lady pestering her elected representative day in, day…

Six things I learned from two years of photographing the same boring place.

TL;DR: You can order Beauty Hunting here. The majority (56 percent) of all Kickstarter projects fail. So it really should have come as no surprise when the Kickstarter to publish my debut photography book Beauty Hunting failed last summer. I only managed to raise 32 percent of the money I…

A small village called Cioburciu, on the banks of river Dniester, in the Soviet Republic of Moldova was where I spent every childhood summer until I was 11 years old, all three glorious months it, from early June to the end of August. We would stuff boxes and suitcases with three month’s worth of…