National Geographic Field Ready

Recently I traveled to the UK for National Geographic Society’s Field Ready program, a 7-month-long mentorship and training opportunity for Nat Geo grantees to advance their careers in natural history, science, exploration, and documentary filmmaking. With mentees from Colombia to Nigeria, India to South Korea, and elsewhere, Field Ready’s only third …

Nat Geo Grant: Korea’s Moon Bear Rewilding Program

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been awarded a 2022 National Geographic Society Grant for my project on South Korea’s Asian moon bear restoration program. @InsideNatGeo. In 2004, an estimated 5 moon bears remained in Korea’s natural environment, with their extinction in the wild seeming all but inevitable. Hoping to avoid …

2018 Year in Review

I had another creative and productive year in 2018. In January and February, I covered stories for various international media before and during the 2018 Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. The Monocle Travel Guide to Seoul, for which I was the chief photographer, came out in March. Monocle happens to be my …

Travel: 48 Hours in Kagoshima, Japan

I traveled to Kagoshima, Japan, just for two days in the beginning of Feb 2016. It was so spontaneous and one of the most underprepared trips ever. Inevitably I took some snapshots with my trusty A7RII.