Genesis
Terra Nova
Discovering New Horizons
I oftentimes sleep in cars, drive countless hours chasing good weather, and meticulously scour Google Maps to find and plan routes to locations that haven’t gotten any trails to.
On a trip to Iceland, we had some dismal weather and harsh light for shooting landscapes. So, instead of my typical wide angle lens, I snapped on the telephoto lens.
Pointing a 600mm lens across the river towards a wall of basalt rocks led to the discovery of some incredible colors that time had etched into the stone
This was a pivotal moment for it marked the point when I broke away from traditional landscapes photos and let my lens guide me to new perspectives.
Volcano Abstracts Series was about the fleeting nature of life and the beauty in moments we often overlook. It was a reminder that what we expect isn’t always what we get, and that’s where the magic happens.
This series funded my next adventure to Australia, where I witnessed one of the rarest natural phenomena—a massive flooding event in 2022 made ancient grasses and life to spring up in the driest place on Earth.
Australia was an adventure of uncertainty.
A vague newspaper article, washed-out roads, relentless rain, and the very real risk of being stuck in the never never land made the journey fun and challenging.
To have document something that hadn't
happened in over 100 years,
is one of the highlights of my life.
In all my wanderings around the world,
the most extraordinary moments often came when I’ve embrace the unknown.
Terra Nova: By Way Of water
I’m exploring new horizons and sharing what emerges when
we allow Nature to speak through its most elemental forms.
In June of 2024, I meet with James Bristow in Brazil. Although the focus was to shoot a short film, I was able to sneak the drone up a few times to photograph this spectacular region.
Water is more than life—it’s transformation.
From the most barren deserts in Australia to the shifting sands among ancient riverbeds,
water is a dynamic force that carves, renews, and shapes the very foundation of life on Earth.
What beauty happens when a landscape undergoes a metamorphosis through water?
Each photo illustrates nature’s resilience and ability to thrive even after prolonged dormancy.
Terra Nova is a photographical archive of an extraordinary story: from Australia's Outback, where a century-old drought was broken by floods that awakened a vibrant bloom, to Brazil’s Lençóis Maranhenses, where seasonal rains carve shimmering lagoons into endless dunes.
These photos are a call to reimagine not only the landscapes but the possibilities for renewal within ourselves. The way water transforms the land mirrors how we too can reshape our lives, embracing the ebb and flow of change to discover unseen potential.
I invite viewers to explore the delicate balance of erosion and renewal, destruction and creation.
Just as water sculpts the earth, so too can we reshape our futures. Terra Nova: By Way of Water is a testament to the powerful interplay between vulnerability and strength, reminding us that, like these landscapes, we possess the resilience to bloom again, even when life’s storms seem to wash everything away.
