Until now, my photography has focused largely on nature, yet during my travels I encountered people who moved me so deeply that I felt compelled to photograph them. These images tell their stories.

The Indigenous community I met in a village near Iguazú in Argentina received me with great warmth and generosity. They shared the little they had and invited me to join them for maté tea and roasted corn on the cob. The children watched me with curious delight. My height, at 1.80 metres, and my blonde curls seemed to fascinate them. First they photographed me with my own camera, and afterwards they took great pleasure in being photographed themselves.

The people I met while travelling through Bhutan radiated a dignity and grace unlike anything I had known before. Nothing seemed capable of disturbing their calm; they appeared deeply at peace, entirely at ease with themselves and wholly reconciled with their existence.

These photographs are not for sale. They simply form an extension of my artistic language.