CURRENT MISSION

to help people and give voice to the voiceless through my visual storytelling ability

ABOUT ME

I'€™m a photojournalist interested in telling visual stories about people and, in specific, cultures affected by change.

Pourquoi je suis sur Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love hosting incredible surfers and I love surfing with awesome hosts.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Wonderful experience meeting CSers in Mexico City and Chiang Mai, Thailand and couchsurfing in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Buenos Aires, Istanbul.
Have hosted in Denton, TX.

Centres d'intérêt

photojournalism, multimedia, cultural anthropology, sociology, world music, reggae

• music
• world music
• surfing
• anthropology
• communications
• sociology

Morceaux de musique, films et livres

Movies: Motorcycle Diaries, Amelie, Kundun, Gandhi, Mi Familia, The Scent of Green Papaya, Star Wars and oh-so-many documentaries

Music: lots of world music (I was a world music radio DJ in college), love reggae, mento, rocksteady, ska and most old school Jamaican stuff
Also, BIG fan of This American Life and storytelling in all its forms

Books: Living Buddha, Living Christ; and a ton of narrative non-fiction

Une aventure extraordinaire que j'ai vécue

- Working at the Chilean miners' rescue in 2010 as an assistant photographer. Such a media circus!
- Covering the 2010 earthquake and tsunami in Chile (truly horrifying to see the destruction)
- Eddie Adams Workshop XXV - there is no greater awe-inspiring weekend for a photojournalist than this one.

Pays que j'ai visités

Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey

Pays dans lesquels j'ai vécu

Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, United States

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