Notes from the street.

How Do I Get Over the Fear of Shooting Strangers?

Every street photographer asks this eventually. The honest answer is that the fear does not fully go away — but it changes shape. On what actually replaced it, and why that shift matters more than courage.

Not a Tourist, Not Quite a Local

Street photography in Paris deserves a more honest introduction than it usually gets. On what the city does to a photographer who decides to stay, and why the material never runs out.

The Long Game · Here on Purpose, Part 2

Part 2 of a two-part series on photographing Paris with intention. Multiple projects running in parallel, the difference between a project you plan and one that finds you, and what a neighbourhood teaches me when I decided to stay.

Staying Put · Here on Purpose, Part 1

Part 1 of a two-part series on photographing Paris with intention. When everybody is coming to Paris, why do I have to leave? On staying put, the neighbourhoods that have barely been photographed, and shooting the streets where you live.

The Outsider Eye

The advantage of being an outsider: how living in Paris as a foreigner kept my eye sharp, and why three award-winning photographs all turned out to be crowd shots.

How It All Started

How attending a postgraduate business program in France led unexpectedly to a photography exhibition, and eventually to photographing the streets of Paris.