New York City based freelance photographer specializing in documenting endangered/unusual cultures and traditional life ways of Asia, Latin America and Africa. Known as The Travel Photographer. Leader of photography expeditions & workshops. Instructor with Foundry Photojournalism Workshop & Travel Photographer Society. Author of Hau Dong: The Spirit Mediums of Vietnam. Author of Chinese Opera of the Diaspora. Quadrilingual. Sinophile. Currently experimenting with street fashion photography.