Esther & Jason

Esther & Jason are a love story in progress. In late January I was able to spend a couple of hours with them on their wedding day. After a week of rain, it was …

The Wellspring Foundation

The Wellspring Foundation for Education is a hard-working non-profit in Rwanda. This promotional film is the collaborative effort of several creatives that began with a filming trip to Rwanda in 2008.

Olympic Torch Relay

This isn’t the type of work I’d normally feature here, but I’ve been prodded to give it a mention. The above video is an example of the result of the imaging workflow I helped to design for Vancouver 2010’s Olympic …

Joshua Tree Panoramas

Just back from two days with a good friend, enjoying nothing but the quiet of the wind and the rocks under our feet in Joshua Tree National Park. The trip was (purposefully) undocumented, except for a few stops to make …

Rwanda: Hope Rises Trailer

Trailer for the documentary Rwanda: Hope Rises. More info and DVDs for sale here.

Bulembu Promo

In August 2008 I travelled to Bulembu, my second trip to this small town in Swaziland, Africa. I had been a few months previously, on a photography assignment (you can see some here and here). This time, I was …

YMCA Youth Peace Network PSA

A recent project for The YMCA of Greater Vancouver.
We had a very tight timeline, and an even tighter budget, but we managed to pull it all together — just in time for the YPN’ers farewell dinner. A great group of …

“The Duchess” Trailer

Wallpaper: Scattered Trees

A fresh wallpaper to finish the month. Click here to browse a few others you may like…
Click here to download the full-size wallpaper

David & Melissa

Voices for Bulembu Trailer

To mark the launch of the Voices for Bulembu campaign, Craig, Jesse and I put together this trailer. It was made with footage from my trip to Bulembu, Swaziland with the Canadian Tenors in August. Click the pic …

The Promise 2nd Unit

I’m in Oxford, enjoying a short break after wrapping 2nd unit on “The Promise”, a documentary on Israel. While Jim van Dijk (Director) and Todd Williams (DP) ran main unit, I had the fun job. Four people and …

Wallpaper – Shoreline

High-time for another wallpaper, and an excuse to exercise Lightroom 2. This one’s from waaaay back: Shoreline Wallpaper (right-click to save)

Photography for Africa: the Bulembu Calendar

This February I travelled to Swaziland after filming in Rwanda. I was on assignment with the Teldon Community Foundation, photographing the town of Bulembu. A former mining town, Bulembu is now being transformed into a centre …

Featured with Stephen Lewis

My photography is featured in the July edition of Alive Magazine, as part of an article about Stephen Lewis and the AIDS crisis in Africa. It was an honour to share the page: Stephen is one of my heros …

Gallery: RED on Set

This week I’ve been working with Martin Wood and David Geddes on the set of Sanctuary, SciFi network’s latest TV show. Our new company, Inspired Cinema, is providing the complete camera & support package, as well as a data …

RED Rwanda – Heavenly Clouds

While I’m getting my edit suite set up, and data moved around & backed up ready for a six-week edit session, Jesse’s been playing a bit with some of the footage from Rwanda. This one’s just too cool not …

Photo Essay – The Bulembu Story

Bulembu went from a sleepy hollow of Swazi homesteads to a major mining operation – producing one-third of Swaziland’s GDP – to a near-ghost town in the space of several decades. Now it’s in the midst of another transformation. …

Gallery – Portraits of Bulembu

My recent assignment in Swaziland was a 2009 calendar on Bulembu. The concept was to photograph people involved in transformation, telling their story in a single frame. I approached this primarily through wide-angle portraits of the characters in context, …

Photo – The Chirwa’s

Edison Chirwa emigrated from Malawi looking for work in 1949. He started working for the mine a few days later. He’s lived here with Leah ever since…