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Overview

  • 12 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English, Spanish; learning Portuguese, Urdu
  • 44, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Visual Journalist
  • Bachelors in Fine Arts, Masters in Journalism
  • No hometown listed
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

to help people and give voice to the voiceless through my visual storytelling ability

ABOUT ME

I'€™m a photojournalist interested in telling visual stories about people and, in specific, cultures affected by change.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I love hosting incredible surfers and I love surfing with awesome hosts.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Wonderful experience meeting CSers in Mexico City and Chiang Mai, Thailand and couchsurfing in Pretoria, Johannesburg, Buenos Aires, Istanbul.
Have hosted in Denton, TX.

Interests

photojournalism, multimedia, cultural anthropology, sociology, world music, reggae

  • music
  • world music
  • surfing
  • anthropology
  • communications
  • sociology

Music, Movies, and Books

Movies: Motorcycle Diaries, Amelie, Kundun, Gandhi, Mi Familia, The Scent of Green Papaya, Star Wars and oh-so-many documentaries

Music: lots of world music (I was a world music radio DJ in college), love reggae, mento, rocksteady, ska and most old school Jamaican stuff
Also, BIG fan of This American Life and storytelling in all its forms

Books: Living Buddha, Living Christ; and a ton of narrative non-fiction

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

- Working at the Chilean miners' rescue in 2010 as an assistant photographer. Such a media circus!
- Covering the 2010 earthquake and tsunami in Chile (truly horrifying to see the destruction)
- Eddie Adams Workshop XXV - there is no greater awe-inspiring weekend for a photojournalist than this one.

Countries I’ve Visited

Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Croatia, Guatemala, Indonesia, Myanmar, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey

Countries I’ve Lived In

Bolivia, Chile, Mexico, United States

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