The Yerba Mansa Project is a women-run native plant restoration non-profit based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They organize the community to restore Yerba Mansa and other native medicinal plants, offer free classes and events to the community, work with local school classrooms, collect ecological data, and more. Every Fall and Spring they organize restoration field days in the the Middle Rio Grande bosque (riparian ecosystem).
Expedition to New Ireland and Manus provinces. Three months spent with coastal communities to get to know a little about their lives and relationship to the marine environments in which they rely on everyday. In close collaboration with each community and our local partners we are documenting aspects of their day-to-day lives that illustrate the unique place-based magic of their way being, their value systems and inherent connection to the natural world around them.
In addition to field film production duties I was responsible for photo documentation of expedition and communications with National Geographic HQ.
Expedition to the remote Western Islands - Sonsorol, Pulo Ana, Merir, Tobi and Helen Reef. In addition to field film production duties I was responsible for photo documentation of expedition and communications with National Geographic HQ.
Expedition to Bikar, Bokak and Bikini atolls. In 2025, the Marshall Islands declared a new marine protected area spans 18,500 square miles of water surrounding two remote, northern atolls, called Bikar and Bokak. Smithsonian article on the new marine protected area.
In addition to field film production duties I was responsible for photo documentation of expedition and communications with National Geographic HQ.
In Laos there are over 49 different ethnic groups, many with distinctly unique textile and handicraft traditions. Here, textiles are as integral to cultural identity as language…
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12-seater plane, 5-hour off road truck ride and a river boat later, we are arrive in the village of Xiang Khouang…to deliver raw silk and complex textile designs for the talented women there.
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For a few weeks out of the year, low caste men transform into gods...by way of mesmerizing trance dancing and opulent costumes.
Read MoreIn the Myanmar city of Mandalay, jade is big business. In fact, it’s the biggest jade market in the world.
Read MoreLife in a day of riding a Burmese local train.
Read MoreLaos’ Bun Ok Pansa festival. Meticulous craftsmanship. Hundreds of hours of work. All to be burned and discarded.
Read MoreEven with 135 distinct ethnic groups with their own indigenous spiritual practices, 90% of Burmese people also practice Buddhism.
Read MoreSkinned sparrows. Barbecued rat. Silk worms. River Weed and snakes. Yum.
Read MoreAfter US bombers destroyed her village in 1976, 11-year-old Kommaly Chanthavong walked for a month to the capital of Laos, carrying only her family’s generational knowledge of silk weaving. Now, she runs a successful textile cooperative supporting the livelihoods of over 3,000 members and their families.
Read MoreFollowing in the footsteps of the 14th Dalai Lama more than 150,000 Tibetan refugees have fled to India during the past 50 years fleeing ethnic and religious persecution from the People’s Liberation Army of China - many trekking through the treacherous Himalayas to escape.
Read MoreThe vastness and openness of the isolated high desert environment of Ladakh inevitably reflects the state of mind of the people there.
Read MoreAn ode to Indian food consumption. (Smartphone photos, mostly).
Read MoreLooking for a free meal, place to stay and a shower? The Golden Temple’s got you covered.
Read MoreEarly morning meanderings at Mysore's famous Devaraja Market.
Read More34 caves at Ellora. 29 at Ajanta. A mix of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain sites for spiritual and philosophical inquiry dug, chiseled, and carved into rock in the 2nd century BCE.
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