Ethnography – An observational science providing accounts of particular culture, society, or community.

Destiny – An individuals path through life through the selection of the path thorugh ones own decisions.

Destined Ethnography is a photographic essay observing the last 5 years of my travels as a photographer. The portfolio depicts the visual experience of my travels not as a travel log but as an abstraction of form of the environments I have found myself passing through.

The work conveys a photographic expressionism of my world and my emotions through these travels. Photographs taken as if they are of a state of mind or the language of my emotions – what am I seeing when I think or what have I been thinking to see.

The compositions come when I am at my psychological and physical extreme’s, conditions that play on the senses and evoke a visual language using form, color and line. In a daydream like stasis the environments that surround me take on a new light, a visualization of these compositions emerge almost non-representational of the subject verging on the abstract, its is here at this moment that the composition is complete.

These extraordinary images are captured in a straight forward manner there’s no contrived theme, there’s no documentary and there’s no planning – there is just spontaneity and the moment.

These photographs form part of my destiny through my conscious decisions on my journeys, the journey has its stories and the subjects of the compositions have there stories but it is the abstract expressions of my visualizations that I am photographing.

The essay is an photographic ethnography of my travels conveying a visualization of my view of the global village based on my experiences within my own personal culture and community, it’s a depiction of my descent through cultures and communities, exposing my abstraction form composed of the environments that surround me.

A selection of prints are avaliable at prints995.com check them out here…