ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Not wanting to get his feet wet, this child preferred to pass on a huge tangle of roots, the vestiges of a large tree that had fallen into the sea, a victim of sea erosion. Environmental changes due to human activity are now seriously impacting the Swahili Coast.

AUTHOR
I am a self-taught photographer who has been living and working in Africa for over 30 years, including long stays in countries such as Somalia, Mali, Benin, Cameroon, Ghana, and Tanzania. I became a full-time professional in 1992, working as an Africa based photojournalist, shooting numerous picture stories for all sorts of magazines. ,

I like to think that I have a special connection to the African people (always speaking the local language and a keen interest in anthropology and ethnography), one that enables me to capture their essence. In the past most of my stories where about rare traditions that somehow linked man and wildlife or nature, but Africa has changed a lot in the last 30 years and now most of these traditions have disappeared. My recent work has been more personal and contemplative and less focused on picture stories. I have also moved away from color photography and only shoot in black and white.

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