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Photography has always been a somewhat part of my life, looking through the viewfinder of a camera has been my favorite way of observing the world around me. This perspective and understanding of how to use the available light was an ever present attitude through my years of studying and working as an Architect.Architecture introduced me to efficiency and a more fine tuned approach to work, it helped me to developed some of my latent composition and spatial skills. It also triggered a thirst for knowledge and a pursuit of new challenges. “If I haven’t done it before, that’s where you’ll find me!” sums up pretty well this appetite.This curiosity led me to explore videography as a means of creative expression. Something that would be very much embedded with my photographic sensitivity and an obsessed regard for detail.The creative world around me kept flooding me with all sorts of inspirational ideas, some of those triggered me to develop projects where I could explore whole new sets of skills. One of those was the creation of DOF magazine, which was my venture into the world of writing, editing, curating and publishing an online photography magazine. It is a media format tasked to gather and publish photography artists discovered in the lost hours of internet mind traveling.I’ve always been keen on spreading the inspiration that moves me forward and it was from that resolve that the Urban Photo Race was born. Together with other friends we went set ourselves to develop this concept and to bring the world of Street Photography to others and hopefully inspire them as much as I have been though the work of others.When I'm not behind my computer or my camera, you can find me at the Dojo studying Shinkendo and Aikido or running the streets preparing for Ironmans and marathons. You can catch my attention with the smell of freshly brewed coffee.

Listed skills include Photography, Sketchup, Photoshop, Architecture, and 20 others.