About
I am a freelance travel, portrait and landscape photographer and for the past two years I have been living on the road as a nomad. Traveling the world in search of, well, many things. Images, people, experiences, places, me. I still live as a nomad. I aspire to become a visual storyteller and documentarist.
My background is pure landscape photography but I now focus primarily on portraits and travel and ethno-photography. My greatest passion lies in capturing the people of our world and our many different living conditions and the contrast and drama of nature vs mankind. I wish for my images to show that our everyday lives, no matter where we live, are much more alike than different. I feel strongly that this must encourage us to treat each other more kindly, with more respect and compassion. Racism, prejudice, oppression, sexism, any form of discriminatory treatment should have no place in our world. It is an issue I feel strongly about and will continue to document.
Biography
I grew up on a farm in rural Denmark. I loved the countryside and spending time in nature, especially the wide open spaces of the fields. As a child I
wanted to be everything from a cowboy, a wildlife cinematographer, a reporter to a fighter pilot. I ended up with an education in IT. I moved into the alien environment of the city of
Copenhagen and worked there for years as head of an IT-department for the Danish Government.
I had seen little of the world in my early years, my love for traveling developed slowly as I discovered that there was a large and exciting world to be seen, experienced, and captured, and
that it is possible to go anywhere. My love for photography grew out of my first trips, as I needed a way to capture the experiences while traveling.
My career in IT was going very well but I felt ready for a change and a new path in 2006. The wilderness and the world was calling me and my creative side was thirsty for attention. I began to wonder if it was possible to combine my love of nature with photography and traveling thereby creating a new life and making a living. Dream soon became necessity, and a year of planning and preparation I resigned my job in 2007 and travelled around Australia shooting photos every day. Returning home 10 weeks later I was passionately convinced this was my new path and launched my photography business in January 2008.
The year 2009 was a milestone on this path. After 84 days of photography assignments in Namibia, Australia, Malaysia and Borneo, I fully committed to a life on the road capturing images around the world. I sold my home and all my belongings and embarked on the first chapter of my new nomadic photographer life in November 2009. Chapter one of my nomad life was a six month journey of incredible people, images, people and ups and downs through Thailand, Laos, Malaysia, Australia and USA. Chapter two opened in Papua New Guinea in November 2010 and continued through Australia, Cambodia and Australia again.
Traveling the world and photographing the people of Laos, Borneo, Papua New Guinea and Cambodia has meant a dramatic change in my photography. Capturing the people living in our world and our many different ways of living now holds my greatest interest and portrait and travel photography is where my greatest passion and challenge lies. I aspire to become a visual storyteller and documentarist.
The road is at times a hard place to live but I am thrilled to live my dream. After two years mostly on the road filled with fantastic people, experiences and images I sometimes feel a strong need for having a base again, a place to call home. Where and when that will be remains to be seen. For now I will continue to capture and document images of people and their lives and explore our planet.
You can read much more about my life as a Nomad Photographer on my blog, see the Recommended
Reading page.
Profiles
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Cameras and software
I use the full frame Canon 5D Mk II DSLR camera and various Canon L lenses. For a detailed look at my equipment, see my blog post “What’s in the bag?”