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  • Northern Kenya 2019

    Northern Kenya 2019 12

    Portraits / March 2020

    This set was taken ten years since my first extensive travels through the Samburu, Turkana, Rendille and Pokot communities of northern Kenya. That trip...more

  • India 2014

    India 2014 12

    Portraits / February 2020

    Having spent many months street photographing across India and Bangladesh in 2005, I was already familiar with this country of incredible human and physical...more

  • Angola and Ethiopia 2012

    Angola and Ethiopia 2012 21

    Portraits / August 2012

    The far south of Angola: crazy bureaucracy but the reward of encounters with wonderful traditional cultures that are really infrequently visited by outsiders....more

  • Northern Kenya II

    Northern Kenya II 11

    Portraits / September 2011

    The far North of Kenya in 2011: two years had passed since my first trip to this baking hot semi-desert and further drought threatened Samburu, Rendille...more

  • Ethiopia - East/West & Omo

    Ethiopia - East/West & Omo 15

    Portraits / January 2010

    Ethiopia can justifiably claim to be one of the most diverse countries on earth, both in terms of its geography and its cultural anthropology. I have a...more

  • Ethiopia - Omo Black & White

    Ethiopia - Omo Black & White 15

    Portraits / January 2010

    Taken on my second trip to Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley in late 2009. This increasingly visited location is not without its challenges: resource development...more

  • Kaokoland - The Himba

    Kaokoland - The Himba 12

    Portraits / October 2009

    The Himba socieities living in Namibia's arid, rugged Kaokoland region are visually unique. Himba women combine ochre and buttermilk to incredible effect:...more

  • Northern Kenya

    Northern Kenya 20

    Portraits / April 2009

    Twenty images from remote societies in the far north of Kenya, including the Samburu, Rendille, Turkana and Pokot.This project involved 6 weeks hitching...more

  • West African Societies

    West African Societies 15

    Portraits / February 2009

    Black and white portraits from some of West Africa's most remote societies, including the Wodaabe and Fula in Niger, the Tuareg in Mali, the Tamberma in...more

  • Ethiopia - Omo Valley

    Ethiopia - Omo Valley 14

    Portraits / January 2009

    My first serious experiment with colour portraiture in Ethiopia's Lower Omo Valley, taken in late 2009. As always, my focus were striking individuals from...more

  • Africa - Portraits

    Africa - Portraits 6

    Portraits / December 2006

    Images from my first trip to Africa in 2006 where I travelled across parts of Southern and Eastern Africa.Along the way I had the opportunity to spend...more

  • Magnificence

    Magnificence 15

    Landscapes / September 2005

    Pictures taken across Africa and Asia on journeys through deserts and savannah. This is amongst my earliest work, and predates much of my portraiture....more

  • Kenya Large Format Film

    Kenya Large Format Film 3

    Portraits / January 2005

    These images were taken with a 10x8 Large Format camera during my second trip to the far North of Kenya in 2011. Shooting with this camera is a tremendous...more


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