Close to the ground. Close to people.
Documentary films and photography from remote coastlines, mountain villages, and the communities who call them home.
Most documentary work is made to inform. I think the better brief is to let someone feel what it was like to stand there.
I spend longer earning a welcome than I do filming. Before a camera comes out, there's tea, there's waiting, there's listening to what a place actually wants told, not what I assumed on the way in. The crew stays small, the kit stays light, and the story is handed back in the voice of the people living it, not mine.
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Sri Lanka, 2026
Four things I don't skip.
Earning a welcome
I arrive without a shot list. The film only starts once people are comfortable enough to forget the camera is there.
Natural light, always
No rig, no rigging the moment. I shoot with whatever light the place gives that day, and build the schedule around it.
A kit that fits a backpack
One camera body, a small prime kit, a recorder. Light enough to hike in, humble enough not to change the room.
Leave it as it was
Every frame is shared back with the people in it before it goes anywhere else. Nothing leaves that a community hasn't seen first.