Every picture tells a story
Photography has the ability to carry people elsewhere. To place them inside an experience, close to the land, the wildlife and the atmosphere that defines a place. My work focuses on translating lived moments into visual stories that feel immersive and present, allowing viewers to sense what it is like to be there. Over the years, this has taken me across Africa, working with lodges, safari companies and local communities. What you see here is a selection of visual narratives shaped by place, rhythm and human connection.
Big Sky, Long Necks, No Apologies
Ruaha National Park
Ruaha National Park
Ruaha plays the long game. The land stretches wide, the silence takes its time, and giraffes wander through the frame as if scale were a personal statement. Tall, elegant, unbothered. Exactly how Ruaha likes it.
The Ruaha River cuts a decisive line through dust and stone, gathering life without making a fuss. Wildlife appears when it wants to, not on cue, which makes every encounter feel earned rather than staged.
This is a park with elbow room and attitude. Less traffic, more character. Ruaha does not perform. It simply exists, confidently, and lets you catch up.
Datooga Tribe
Life Carried Through Generations
Life Carried Through Generations
Encountering the Datooga is a meeting with continuity. Their lives unfold through cattle, land and family, guided by customs that have travelled intact through generations. Movement feels deliberate, grounded in rhythms shaped by season and soil.
Daily life takes place in open landscapes where presence matters more than pace. Children observe, elders guide, and knowledge circulates through gesture, repetition and shared time. Everything feels purposeful, held together by community and tradition.
The Datooga way of life leaves a quiet impression. Rooted, resilient and deeply connected to the land that sustains it.
Siringit Collection
A Signature of Thoughtful Hospitality
A Signature of Thoughtful Hospitality
The Siringit Collection brings together a series of camps and lodges defined by coherence, craftsmanship and care. Each property carries a distinct character while sharing a common philosophy rooted in design, service and a deep connection to the land. Spaces feel considered and calm, shaped to frame landscape rather than compete with it. Hospitality flows naturally, attentive without interruption, creating an atmosphere where guests feel both grounded and free.
Together, the collection forms a refined expression of safari living across Tanzania’s most remarkable locations.
Four Seasons Safari Lodge Serengeti
At the Heart of the Plains
At the Heart of the Plains
Set within the Serengeti National Park, Four Seasons Safari Lodge Serengeti opens directly onto the movements of wildlife. Elephants gather at waterholes below private terraces, while the plains stretch endlessly beyond. Days flow between guided game drives, moments of rest by the infinity pool and meals that reflect the region’s richness. Evenings settle into quiet observation as the landscape transitions from gold to shadow.
The lodge offers comfort that feels deeply connected to its surroundings, allowing the Serengeti to remain the true centre of attention.
Baraa School
A Place Shaped by Learning
A Place Shaped by Learning
Set within the everyday rhythm of Arusha, Baraa School moves with purpose and care. Classrooms fill with focus and laughter, guided by the energy of children whose curiosity unfolds naturally throughout the day. Learning here grows through structure and attention. Teachers lead with patience, routines offer stability, and progress is built step by step through shared effort. Books, voices and gestures come together to form a steady foundation.
Baraa School reflects the strength of community and commitment. A place where education creates confidence, and confidence opens new paths forward.
Serengeti National Park
Where Time Finds Its Rhythm
Where Time Finds Its Rhythm
The Serengeti unfolds at its own pace. Vast plains extend to the horizon, shaped by wind, weather and the quiet continuity of life. Movement appears gradually, carried by herds, shadow and light, asking for attention rather than urgency. Days reveal themselves through detail. Hoofprints pressed into dust. An acacia standing firm beneath a wide sky. The slow shift of colour as the sun lowers and the land exhales.
The Serengeti leaves a lasting imprint through presence and scale. Once experienced, its rhythm becomes part of your own.
Twiga beer
Made by Tanzania
Made by Tanzania
Twiga Beer is brewed with an eye for quality and a respect for process. Drawing on pure mountain water and carefully selected ingredients, each beer reflects a commitment to craft rooted in Tanzanian soil. At the brewery and taproom in Arusha, beer becomes a shared experience. Conversations flow easily, glasses are raised, and new traditions take shape.
Twiga pours a story of community, patience and pride into every glass.
Machare Coffee Lodge
From Soil to Cup
From Soil to Cup
At Machare Coffee Lodge, life unfolds among coffee trees on the fertile slopes of Kilimanjaro. Mornings begin with mist lifting slowly from the estate, carrying the scent of blossoms and freshly roasted beans. Cottages sit within the plantation, offering views over cultivated hills and distant peaks. Guests are invited into the rhythm of the farm, tracing coffee’s journey from soil to cup through hands, time and care.
Machare offers a sense of calm rooted in cultivation, flavour and place.
A Taste of Tanzania
Untold Publishing
Untold Publishing
What’s in a taste? A taste can be exquisite, unexpected, mixed, spiced, simple, honest, dark, light, complex, raw, ... Depending on a subtle interaction of touch, sight, smell and the experience of the known and unknown in your life. Putting a taste into words is difficult.
Capturing it on camera even more so... Yet, this book is the result of a bold project aimed at giving people a taste of one country in particular: Tanzania. A 355 page coffee table book full of stunning photographs, compelling stories and delicious recipes. A catalogue of my wanderings through this magnificent country together with my best friend and chef, Axel Janssens. And the result of our relentless search for beauty, meaning and adventure. A quest that has never ended to this day.
Siringit Migration Camp
Living With the Great Movement
Living With the Great Movement
Migration Camp follows the ancient pulse of the Serengeti. Positioned along the path of the Great Migration, it places guests at the heart of one of nature’s most powerful cycles. Tents rise where wildebeest and zebra pass, guided by season, instinct and time. Mornings open onto endless grasslands washed in soft light. Days unfold through game drives that track movement rather than schedule. Meals are shared beneath open skies, surrounded by the quiet tension of anticipation.
This is safari shaped by motion, patience and proximity to the wild.
https://www.siringit.co.tz/collection/siringit-migration-camp/
Nale Moru
Safaris That Become Stories
Safaris That Become Stories
To travel with Nale Moru is to enter Africa with attention and intent. Each journey unfolds at a pace dictated by landscape, light and life itself. From the open plains of the Serengeti to forested highlands and remote valleys, every route is shaped by deep knowledge of place and a profound respect for its rhythms.
Details linger long after the journey ends. A lioness crossing the road at dawn. A guide who reads the land as fluently as a book. The stillness of evening settling over camp while the horizon glows its final colours.
Nale Moru crafts safaris that stay with you, because they are grounded in story, presence and connection.
Feel the glow
Kimemo coffee farm
Kimemo Coffee Farm
A short drive away from Arusha in Tanzania lies a coffee farm renowned for its unique brand of deep, rich and delicious washed Arabica. Run by the Bannister family, the Kimemo Coffee Farm is built upon a beautiful philosophy of love and care. For their product, for the earth that produces it and the people who cultivate it. And I am truly convinced that is what makes every sip an experience in itself.
Tender hearts
Maasai Tribe
Maasai Tribe
To feel part of the Maasai way of life, albeit very briefly, was an extremely moving experience for me. Their complete respect for all living things is nothing short of inspirational. They invited me to witness the ritual slaughter of a goat. And while there is nothing joyous about watching an animal being killed, the respectful and humble way in which the Maasai do it has a poetry to it, gently stroking and kindly whispering to it as it passes from this life into the next.
The Flying Chef
Axel Janssens
Axel Janssens
Meeting Chef Axel Janssens was a coincidence. Our friendship wasn’t. We are both attracted by the unknown, and triggered by a common sense of exploration. He would soon become my partner in crime, my fellow adventurer, my guide, and eventually my best friend. Axel is a Belgian chef who landed in Tanzania around 2005 when he joined his cousin Dirk, who was running Onsea House in Arusha.
Axel’s culinary talent transformed this small family guesthouse into a local hotspot and ultimately, a luxury resort. And so Axel’s gastronomic name and fame was made and he soon became one of the most sought-after chefs in Tanzania, flying around the country and even to neighbouring Kenya, bringing his enchanting cuisine to the most exotic locations and earning himself the nickname, “The Flying Chef”. Axel’s enthusiasm for Tanzania was contagious, and the passion we came to share for this ruggedly beautiful place eventually inspired the book we created together: “A Taste of Tanzania”.
Back to the roots
The Hadzabe Tribe
Hadzabe Tribe
The Hadzabe are a small tribe in the south of Tanzania and some of the last remaining hunter-gatherers in the world. The life they lead has been passed on through generations, based on a deep respect for nature. Adapting to the ebb and flow of the seasons, the Hadzabe rely on multiple survival techniques developed over millenia. Hadzabe women typically gather in groups, often accompanied by a male, and forage for fruits (essentially from the baobabs), berries, tubers (thick potato-like roots) and honey.
Pure magic
Jussi Husa, the Swedish chef
The Swedish Chef
I used to know only one Swedish chef. Now I know two of them. Meet Jussi Husa, a Swedish-born executive røck ‘n røll chef. Jussi is a force of nature, a charismatic whirlwind who has been cooking for almost 40 years. His personality and endless passion for food were a lust for the eye and a true inspiration. And this still young-at-heart veteran’s dishes left me flabbergasted. Which almost sounds Swedish.
The sorcerer’s apprentice
Jobportunity
Jobportunity
What a fiery character and passionate soul is Chef Baracca! The young man whose passion for cooking is perhaps unmatched anywhere. And while his kitchen at Onsea House may be a far cry from the streets of Arusha where he grew up, it is no less authentic. He passed up what would undoubtedly have been a successful international career in favour of staying and joining his long-time teacher, mentor and friend, Axel.
Just one of many success stories to come out of the non-profit initiative, Jobportunity with whom Axel has devoted much of his life and virtually all of his culinary wizardry to helping underprivileged kids. A heart-warming story to challenge the soul-warming food this dynamic duo dish up every night.
A rush of blood to the heart
Arusha Central Market (Tanzania)
Arusha Central Market (Tanzania)
Stepping out into Arusha’s Central Market for the first time, witnessing the beaming smiles and charming, radiant faces of the locals, the explosion of exotic fragrances, the whirlwind of sounds and the maelstrom of activity… Through that labyrinth of colour and life it was hard to know which way to go, let along which way to look and/or point my lens. I will never forget this veritable feast for the senses!
Posh Spice
Vanilla
Vanilla
Sure, I had used pepper, vanilla and other spices before landing on Zanzibar. But it was only by witnessing their cultivation first hand that I could fully appreciate what a labour of love they are. The arduous process of cultivating vanilla, the queen of spices, touched me the most, given the royal treatment and even pollinated by hand with true patience and precision. Talk about posh spice!
Small is beautiful
1001 Organic
1001 Organic
1001 Organic is a social enterprise dedicated to sustainable cultivation of the preservation of traditional varieties of premium organic spices. By reviving more natural, small-scale production techniques, they not only produce a superior product but ensure the long-term sustainability of the industry to which they have devoted their lives. And you can taste the difference – and experience the unique story behind every one – at Tanzania’s very first concept store, the 1001 Organic Spicery in Stonetown.
