ABOUT ME

I'm a photographer and a teacher living in Devon, England (the beautiful, beautiful West Country). I've travelled a fair bit & hope to do much more if the years to come treat me as well as those have so far. I generally like meeting new people and making the most of what life throws this way...

PHILOSOPHY

why do today what you can put off till tomorrow

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

All good

Interests

climbing trees, swimming in the wild, photography, art, music, festivals, calvin & hobbes, road trips, hitching, dancing, wilderness, fooooooood....

• arts
• photography
• festivals
• dancing
• cooking
• movies
• music
• rock climbing
• swimming
• teaching
• hitchhiking
• road trips

Music, Movies, and Books

100 Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Of Cholera, Call of The Wild, The Great Gatsby, Catch 22, Norwegian Wood, A Wild Sheep Chase, Of Mice & Men, Huckleberry Finn, On The Road, Bukowski, Kerouac, Ginsberg, Corso, Rebecca Solnit, Gary Snyder, The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy, Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas, One Flew Over The Cuckoos Nest, To Kill A Mocking Bird, The Man Who, Planted Trees, The Little Prince, John Muir, Henry David Thoreau, Jorge Luis Borges, Breece D.J Pancake, Raymond Carver, The Green Child, J. G Ballard, Walt Whitman, E. E. Cummings, Roger McGough, Brian Patten, Pablo Neruda, Ted Hughes, W.B. Yeats, Philip Larkin...

The Straight Story, Delicatessen, Dead Man's Shoes, Evil Dead 2!, City of God, Oldboy, Eagle vs. Shark, Man Bites Dog, Shaun of The Dead, Cave of The Yellow Dog, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amores Perros, Zatoichi, Tony Takitani, (I have a guilty pleasure in comic book movies), old zombie and King Fu movies (the really bad, hammy stuff) anything by Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog or Wes Anderson

All music!
The Cure, Pulp, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, John Martyn, The National, City & Colour, Cake, Bowie, Prince, James Brown, Souls Of Mischief, Thievery Corp, Four Tet, G. Love, Herbie Hancock, J5, Marcelo D2, Michael Franti, Seu Jorge, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Quantic, Sharon Jones, The Bamboos, The Apples, Sly & The Family Stone, The Cinematic Orchestra, The Pharcyde, Stones, Beatles, Zepplin, Hendrix etc..Tom Waites, Us3, Noah & The Whale, Peggy Lee

reggae/funk/latin/hip hop/soul/jazz/breaks/drum & bass/acoustica/classical and everything inbetween

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Sun coming up over Machu Picchu after 3 days of trekking was pretty amazing but a bit obvious I suppose.... Watching The Thievery Corporation by a lake in a derelict amphitheatre in Portugal is well up there.... Oh and hitchhiking across the states last summer was an epic experience

Teach, Learn, Share

I suppose photography is my true love. (+ climbing trees, wild swimming and 80's movies). I have a special interest in landscape photography, but not the cheesy sunset over the ocean stuff. More politically and socially aware work by photographers like Richard Misrach, Axel Hutte, Elger Esser, Alec Soth, Nadev Kander, Joel Sternfeld, Stephen Shore, Jem Southam. I also like Wolfgang Tilman, Jurgen Teller, Ryan McGinley, David Hilliard, Sally Mann, Martin Parr, The Bechers, Robert Adams etc...

I'm not a bad cook, so would be happy to repay your couch use by cooking diner?!

Countries I’ve Visited

Argentina, Australia, Barbados, Bolivia, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Laos, Lithuania, Netherlands, Peru, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

United Kingdom

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