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Portraits

A collection of portraits I’ve been commissioned to photograph over the years.
































































































































































































































































































Travel

A collection of photographs taken from my travels from personal and work related trips. 
























 










































































































































































































































































Unsettled


Arctic sea ice routes are a vital connector for Labrador Inuit Peoples. Weakening sea ice in Canada Far North is isolating remote fly-in communities, threatening the passing down of Indigenous traditions and language.  As  the ice begins to melt,  Labrador Inuit are taking the fight against climate change into their own hands. Old traditions fuse with innovation,  the communities are adapting to a new marine reality as climate change threatens sea life and food security. 

In March 2024, investigative journalist Jenn Thornhill Verma and I travelled to Nain to document and report on the climate adaptation strategies of the people living in the northernmost community in Nunatsiavut, an autonomous region in Newfoundland and Labrador.

Unsettled is a two-part series produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Part One and Part Two were published in The Globe and Mail in December 2024, on how Inuit communities are adapting to climate change, which is disproportionately affecting coastlines in Canada’s arctic and subarctic regions.

In addition to the main story, we worked with SmartIce and the Globe and Mail to produce an interactive Inuit Sea Ice Glossary, based on the original Sikusiutet sea ice terminology book  (Sikusiutet UKausingit ilingajumut in Inuttitut), originally published by SmartICE (Sea Ice Monitoring and Information Services) in 2023. 


 































Foray NL




On a foggy Saturday morning in early October, I ventured into the deep woods in Salmonier Nature Park on the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland,  with a group of passionate expert and amateur mycologists from across Canada to forage, study and catalogue fungi and lichens during the annual Foray NL.

This is a story I pitched, wrote and photographed for the Globe and Mail’s newest digital platform called Underepxosed, a project dedicated to shedding light on the unseen lives of Canadians in every province and territory.


 































Jamming with chef Jamie Kennedy


I spent a beautiful Sunday morning photograhing chef Jamie Kennedy making delicious apricto jam on his farm in Prince Edward County for Watershed Magazine.