Long-term documentary projects on people, belief,
and the places communities are shaped by.
Forty years of photography, more than 150 published books, and — more recently — documentary film. This site holds the record of that work: the projects, the films, and the archive they came out of.
How the work is made
A subject is followed for years. It accumulates until it is a body of work. Then it becomes a book.
- 40
- years of photography
- 150+
- books published
- 20
- years on Believers alone
- 250,000
- photographs in the archive
Projects
Filmmaking
The same way of seeing, extended through time. Asian Waters — hydraulic essays on Southeast Asia — is the current work; nine films were made for Global Conservation between 2018 and 2024.
Archive
Approximately 250,000 photographs, added to continuously and still the source of new work. Distributed through Getty Images and Hemis.