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The natural world must be my greatest source of inspiration. After finishing high school and moving to Cape Town to pursue a degree in marine biology, I suddenly found my eyes wide open. I was humbled by what I continued to learn about plants and animals, and the environments they inhabit. The world suddenly started to make sense to me and I gained a beautiful sense of clarity and boundless admiration for the natural world.

After my honours degree I backpacked through East Africa to Zanzibar where I spent three months helping locals with turtle conservation and education. It was a journey of self-discovery that broadened my horizon and motivated me to pursue purpose.

A year later I boarded a ship bound for the sub-Antarctic Marion Island, a volcanic wilderness teeming with hundreds of thousands of penguins, albatrosses, petrels and seals. I fell wholeheartedly in love with its raw and untainted beauty, and developed a great affinity for the concept of wilderness and its importance in our lives.

I am passionionate about sharing my perspectives through film and photography. We’re living in an age where increasingly more children are growing up in societies disconnected from wild spaces. This widening gap between them and the world from which they evolved is a major problem as nature is a fundamental part of our psyche. As someone who's been privileged with the experiences I've had, I feel it is my responsibility to share these with others, in the hope that it'll inspire them to fall in love with the natural world, just as I have.

I have been privileged to assist National Geographic photographer Thomas Peschak on eight assignments for the magazine, including trips to remote parts of Bolivia, Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Indonesia, Trinidad, Seychelles, Mozambique and South Africa. These experiences have deepened my understanding of ecology and storytelling.

I co-founded Fishwater Films with Dr Jeremy Shelton as a platform to share purpose-driven stories about freshwater ecosystems in South Africa.