I make portraits, street work and quiet landscapes — and the occasional film when a story won't sit still. Currently based between Istanbul and wherever the next assignment leads.
I've spent the last decade learning to see before I learn to shoot — most of what ends up in a frame was noticed long before the shutter closed. My work moves between commissioned portraits, quiet street observation, and personal travel projects, always in service of one thing: a photograph that still means something on the tenth look.
Editorial portraits and unposed city work, shot on location across three continents.
FilmShort-form documentary and commercial film — from concept through final grade.
Long-formExtended visual essays built over weeks or years, not single sessions.
A five-week study of coastal towns along the Aegean, shot entirely on medium format between dawn and the first hour of light — an attempt to photograph places before they perform for anyone.
Read the ProjectI picked up a camera at nineteen to document a trip I couldn't otherwise afford to remember. Ten years, three continents and a few hundred rolls of film later, it's become the way I understand a place — and the reason I now spend more time behind a viewfinder than in front of a screen.
The journal launches soon — field notes, gear reviews and travel writing from the road. Check back shortly.