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I use my cameras, to share love from the mountains.
Do You Believe in Past Lives?
I am a mountain-based filmmaker, songwriter and climber, working primarily between the Himalayas and New Zealand's Southern Alps. My creative work grows from one place: my love for the mountains and a desire to protect them.
I have never gone to the mountains to conquer them, or simply to reach a summit. I go because I care. And it took me many years to begin understanding where this deep connection came from.
Have You Ever Connected with Your Soul Map?
Mountains have felt like home to me since childhood.
I spent the first six years of my life in Germany. My Opa loved filmmaking and was rarely without his camera. Watching him document our family life taught me, long before I understood photography as art, that a camera could be a way of expressing love. It was also in his basement that I first saw the mountains — in a photograph of a snowy peak hanging on the wall. I remember crying when I saw it. Somehow, I felt at home.
At thirteen, I saw Mt Everest for the first time in Tibet. I felt an overwhelming pull towards her. I didn't understand why. I only knew I wanted to return.
Life took its course. People I loved left. There were moments of doubt, and times when I lost my way. It wasn't until after I turned thirty that I began reconnecting with what I call my soul map, through subconscious memories and experiences I understand as connections to past lives. Suddenly, the longing I had carried since childhood began to make sense.
Why did I cry whenever I saw towering, snowy mountains? Where did this love come from?
It came from my past lives.
Since then, I have spent increasingly long periods in the mountains — climbing, photographing, filming, making music, and sometimes simply being there. I have carried cameras above 8,000 metres, but summits and records have never been what draws me there. What matters are the connections formed along the way.
Over time, I also witnessed the growing traces of human presence: rubbish, abandoned equipment, crowded routes and fragile landscapes under pressure.
It made me ask: If I love this place, what does it mean to take responsibility for it?
That question changed my relationship with art. Photography, film and music became ways of helping people see, feel and care for the living world —— I believe we protect what we learn to love.
What the Mountains Remember
This belief led me to create Songs for the Mountains, an ongoing non-profit project I now carry forward with a small team. We bring people's requested songs and blessings into the mountains, record them there, and collect rubbish to carry out along the way.
For me, these are different expressions of the same relationship: I love this place. And because I love it, I want to care for it.
What the Mountains Remember brings together photography, documentary films, field recordings, music and environmental initiatives shaped by years of exploring, creating and living alongside the mountains.
It begins with a question: If mountains could remember, what would they remember about us?
Mountains witness countless lives passing through. Some seek summits. Some live and work there. Some pray. Some return home changed. Some never return. We leave footprints, rubbish, photographs, stories and songs behind. And the mountains leave something within us.
Rather than showing only their monumental beauty, I want to reveal the quieter traces of human presence: a voice inside a tent, a song carried for someone far away, an abandoned object, rubbish removed from a trail, or a person briefly passing through the frame.
Through photography, documentary films, sound and music, I explore the contrast between the apparent permanence of mountains and the fleeting nature of human life.
Ultimately, What the Mountains Remember is not only about mountains. It asks how we choose to live on this planet.
I do not expect art to solve an environmental crisis. But I believe it can make someone stop, look, listen and feel.
And perhaps caring is where responsibility begins.
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I don't take on many commercial shoots these days, but I always love connecting with interesting souls. If you have a story to tell, I'd love to hear from you.
Rates vary depending on the project.
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