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Praying for Rain, MX
2025—Ongoing

Projects
01Two Lakes, Two Stories
Michoacán Mexico, Guatemalan Highlands
2023—Ongoing
02East vs Southeast
2024—2025
03Morning in Kathmandu, Rituals of Respect
2024
04India in its Extremes2024
05Istanbul: God’s Gift to Man
2023
06Dubaï: Man’s Challenge to God
2023
07Madagascar: Not the Film You Saw as a Kid
2023

Project Index
Current Project: 

Praying for Rain:

A Documentary Style Photojournalism Project Documenting modern P’urépecha Culture in 2026, 700+ years of tradition whose empirial heart is the dying Lake Pátzcuaro.

Stories Around the World:
The Fight to Survive
Madagascar
On the beach communities of Morondava, life revolves around sustenance fishing, zero cash, zero access to a bathroom. A look at primitive accumulation in real life.


Praying for Rain:

A Documentary Style Photojournalism Project Documenting modern P’urépecha Culture in 2026, 700+ years of tradition whose empirial heart is the dying Lake Pátzcuaro. 


Praying for Rain:

A Documentary Style Photojournalism Project Documenting modern P’urépecha Culture in 2026, 700+ years of tradition whose empirial heart is the dying Lake Pátzcuaro. 
Alé

Documenting cultures, traditions, and alternate ways of living around the world, then wrapping them up into a concise and convincing story to help those in need. The world is beautiful, many (who have the means, crucially) are willing to lock themselves in an office for 40 years and miss it all. I plan to experience it and share it. I started travelling four years ago. Started learning languages 3.5 years ago, Spanish, French, Portuguese, soon Arabic. For those of us who have it, it doesn’t feel like a choice. It? It can’t be put into words. 

Currently involved in a self-motivated, unfunded project documenting and bringing to life a culture we never learned about in the “west.” The story of the P’urépecha Empire, their values, self governance in many places, and comunal anti-capitalist worldview is what drew me to the place immediately. They face an ecosystemic crisis in the ancestral heartland, Pátzcuaro and it’s eponymous lake. My current project is to document the struggle, beauty, tradition, and battling forces that are involved in this  700 year old Mesoamerican Empire and the lengths it has gone to to protect and preserve what it has created and considers its heritage. I work alone at the moment, fully availble for employment although this project will require ongoing attention in Michoacán, Mexico. Beyond that, I seek to work with NGOs, offering an extremely broad skillset, four languages, product design, branding, publications and print, social medía campaigns, code and custom web, and on location photography to which this site is dedicated beyond my current work in Mexico.
RIP Sebastião Salgado
RIP Anthony Bourdain

Heroes.
Alé

Documenting cultures, traditions, and alternate ways of living around the world, then wrapping them up into a concise and convincing story to help those in need. The world is beautiful, many (who have the means, crucially) are willing to lock themselves in an office for 40 years and miss it all. I plan to experience it and share it. I started travelling four years ago. Started learning languages 3.5 years ago, Spanish, French, Portuguese, soon Arabic. For those of us who have it, it doesn’t feel like a choice. It? It can’t be put into words. 

Currently involved in a self-motivated, unfunded project documenting and bringing to life a culture we never learned about in the “west.” The story of the P’urépecha Empire, their values, self governance in many places, and comunal anti-capitalist worldview is what drew me to the place immediately. They face an ecosystemic crisis in the ancestral heartland, Pátzcuaro and it’s eponymous lake. My current project is to document the struggle, beauty, tradition, and battling forces that are involved in this  700 year old Mesoamerican Empire and the lengths it has gone to to protect and preserve what it has created and considers its heritage. I work alone at the moment, fully availble for employment although this project will require ongoing attention in Michoacán, Mexico. Beyond that, I seek to work with NGOs, offering an extremely broad skillset, four languages, product design, branding, publications and print, social medía campaigns, code and custom web, and on location photography to which this site is dedicated beyond my current work in Mexico.
RIP Sebastião Salgado
RIP Anthony Bourdain

Heroes.
2026 Cherán, Michoacán. Fish brought up from Lake Pátzcuaro, unfortunately suffering from high levels of toxicity this has caused many locals to stop eating local fish altogether.
Near Cocucho, Michoacán, these intrepid cows line up to graze vertically, something I had never and have never seen since. 
Cherán, Michoacán
Cherán, Michoacán
Cherán, Michoacán
Cherán, Michoacán
Cherán, Michoacán
Cherán, Michoacán







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