I live in Thailand with my Australian partner Eloise who is an editor at a travel magazine. I am a professional travel photographer working for her magazine and other Australian travel mags.
Learning and documenting other cultures is my passion and meeting people who are passionate about something unique is what I look for when I'm travelling.
www.leighgriffithslens.com

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Eloise and myself run an online photographic journal called Stranger Talk which won international awards last year. It is story based and focuses on people and cultures.
When we travel we are always looking for locals who can show us their city and teach us about their cultures, specifically food. The stories we tell on Stranger Talk heavily rely on communication with the people we meet and often the people we like to write about cannot speak english. So having someone there who can translate is incredibly important.

Interests

• photography
• local food
• local culture
• no tourists
• places only locals go to

Music, Movies, and Books

Music
The National, Mazzy Star, Mac Demarco, Sigur Ros, Fleetwood Mac, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Ben Folds, Grizzly Bear, The Cranberries, Cigarettes After Sex, Bowie, Queen, Pink Floyd, Tori y Moi, Blur, Nick Cave, Jack Ladder

Movies
Lost in Translation, Midnight Diner, Life is Beautiful, Boyhood, 2046, The Truman Show, Tree of Life, Arrival, Inside Out, A Single Man, WALL•E, Enter the Void, Dead Poets Society, Her, Capturing the Friedmans, Baraka, Hook, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Rushmore, Gattaca, Inception, Thirst, Howls Moving Castle, Adaptation, Donnie Darko, Waltz with Bashir, Moon, District 9, Up, Lars and the Real Girl, In Bruges, Little Miss Sunshine, Old Boy

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Once saved a blokes life at the cinema.

Teach, Learn, Share

We can share our experienced travel and cultural knowledge we've learned while developing our stories and reporting for magazines. Read some of our work below.

www.strangertalk.co

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Cambodia, Canada, China, Ethiopia, Hong Kong, Japan, Laos, Macao, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, United States, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

Australia, Thailand