Tearsheet from the Jaanuu About Us webpage featuring some of the stills and video from the shoot.
A behind the scenes look into an interior and exterior architectural project that I shot for New World Hoiana Beach Resort in Hoi An, Vietnam in early 2023. In this post I explain how I approach replacing skies when the weather doesn’t play along during a shoot.
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A behind the scenes look into a corporate photography shoot for Clermont Group to capture a library of images for their Medical and Healthcare business Hoan My.
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A behind the scenes look into a stills and video assignment that I shot in Hanoi for the San Francisco based sustainable fashion company Everlane to document the production line of their Tread sneakers. It was interesting assignment where I shot time-lapse, looped videos and documentary style stills.
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A behind the scenes look into an incredible project that I shot in Hanoi in early 2019 focusing on the life changing experience that ten children in Vietnam would be given by Hear the World, Sonova and the Global Foundation for Children with Hearing Loss. Tung Lam was born with a hearing loss so severe, that the hearing aids he had been wearing before surgery were not sufficient for him to develop spoken language. Cochlear implants were his only hope to learn to listen and speak.
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Taken at the Ka Htain festival in Hsipaw, Myanmar. The green wings of this young girls costume caught my eye as she was performing the traditional Kinnara & Kinnari bird dance with three other dancers. The Kinnari is depicted as a half-bird, half-woman creature with the head, torso, and arms of a woman and the wings, tail and feet of a swan. Looking for a more interesting angle I circled behind the young girl and then mid dance and for the briefest of moments she leaned back towards me, my instincts kicked in and I framed and focussed and fired one frame before she continued on her way. Canon 5D Mk II, 35mm f1.4L lens, 1/5000 sec at f1.4, ISO 200.
In early 2017 I was asked to write some words about my career for an online magazine called "Chasing the Light" which is run by renowned travel and landscape photographer David Noton and in this post I share what I wrote. I explain my career up until 2017, how I ended up living and working as a Vietnam based photographer and I discuss many of my favourite images taken over the years in Bangladesh, Syria, Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, The Philippines and Vietnam.
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