I didn't become a photographer who then learnt luxury hospitality.

I was fluent in hospitality, design and guest psychology first. The camera came later.

My career began in advertising before taking me into the world of interiors, where a decorator role in Botswana's Okavango Delta unexpectedly changed the direction of my life.

Every day, I found myself surrounded by extraordinary lodges, visionary architects, passionate hoteliers and international travellers experiencing Africa for the first time. I wasn't there as the photographer. I was there helping create the spaces themselves.

I often found myself balancing on a ladder installing a pendant light while listening to conversations about guest experience, lodge operations, interior details and what truly makes a stay unforgettable. Somewhere between those conversations and those spaces, I realised I was learning something far bigger than interior design.

I was learning how exceptional places are created.

When photography eventually became my profession, I wasn't learning hospitality through the lens. I was bringing years of hospitality, design and creative thinking into the work I was already making.

Today, I photograph for architects, designers, hospitality brands, publications and private residences with the judgement of a creative director and the perspective of someone who has lived inside the industry itself.

Every project begins the same way. Not by unpacking my camera, but by asking questions.

Who is this place for?

What experience were you trying to create?

What details matter most?

Because the strongest photographs don't simply document a finished building. They reveal the hundreds of thoughtful decisions that shaped it, the craftsmanship behind every material and the atmosphere that gives a place its identity.

My work has been commissioned across Africa and published internationally in The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveller, Travel + Leisure, The Robb Report and award-winning architectural publications.

Photography is my craft.

Understanding exceptional places and the people who create them is what gives it perspective.