Writing Portfolio

These are the stories that needed more than a photograph. They come from years of travel, fieldwork, and living with a heart wide open  from informal settlements and remote villages, to moments of unexpected beauty and difficult truths. Some are personal reflections, others are fully reported pieces on social issues, community life, and the human dimensions of a changing world. All of them began with something I witnessed or experienced, and felt moved to write about.

Solwara Meri

The unexpected, unbelievable, but entirely true story of how I became an award-winning rockstar in Papua New Guinea.

Finding Common Ground

A love letter to multilateralism: a photographic reflection of the climate negotiations 10 years on from the adoption of the Paris Agreement.

Fiji: Holding Paradise Together

On Castaway Island in Fiji, a resort is doing something unusual: treating the reef, the forest, and the people between them as a single system. A story about paradise, and the quiet, unglamorous work of keeping it alive.

Demolishing Hope

On the hillside above Hout Bay, a community fights to stay. A story about land, inequality, and what it means when those with power decide who belongs.

Consumed By Fire

When a fire swept through the informal settlement of Imizamo Yethu it took everything: homes, documents, photographs, lives. A story about loss, generosity, and deep inequalities.

Like People You See in a Dream

In the rainforests of Papua New Guinea, a small village appears in a clearing and then, three days later, disappears back into the trees. A story about the people you meet in places like this, and why they stay with you like the memory of a dream.