I love the mountains and the outdoors, but my favorite thing about travelling (aside from eating exotic foods) is getting a chance to meet with people from different cultures around the world. Before leaving for Asia, I had planned on photographing landscapes, mountains, rivers, and ancient monasteries. However, after a few days of travelling through Tibet, I was really drawn to the people there.
Pilgrims circling a prayer wheel along the Barkhor in Lhasa, Tibet
A woman sitting in front of the Dalai Lama’s Potala Palace in Lhasa, Tibet
A local monk and children from Sakya, Tibet are looking at photos I printed of them.
Children stopping at a store on the way home from school in Dhulikhel, Nepal
A woman sits in a doorway in Banepa, Nepal
Me with two young monks I spent an afternoon with in Sakya, Tibet.
During the spring of 2009, I travelled to Tibet and Nepal to work on a documentary portrait project. For six weeks I photographed people living in the Himalayas. While I mostly worked on portraits, I also went about photographing people in their day to day lives.
This 10 minute slideshow, available in HD, is a small sample of the images I made while travelling over the roof of the world.
I just returned from a recent trip to California. I went with some of my college climbing partners and spent about two weeks photographing places like Lake Tahoe, Death Valley, the Eastern Sierra Nevada, and Yosemite National Park. Toss in some hiking and rock climbing and we had a great time. Below are some of my images from the trip.
