Work with me

I am a photographer who writes, not an influencer who photographs. That distinction changes what you get, so it is worth two minutes of your time.

Most creator partnerships buy you attention: a post, a story, a spike, and then nothing. What I make is a permanent, searchable article and a set of photographs your marketing team can actually use. The article keeps working after the campaign ends. The images are yours to keep.

Three ways to work together

1. License images I already have

The fastest option, and the one with no scheduling involved. If a frame in the gallery fits a campaign, a brochure or a website, licence it. Tell me the usage — web, print, paid social, duration, territory — and I will quote against it. Delivered as high-resolution files, colour-graded, within two working days.

2. Commission a shoot

Property, neighbourhood or destination photography, shot the way this site is shot: real light, real hours, no HDR interiors that look nothing like the room. You get a licensed image set for your own channels. Whether a story runs here as well is your call, not a condition.

This is a commercial photography engagement with a day rate. It does not depend on my follower count, because you are buying pictures, not reach.

3. Host a stay, get a story and the images

The travel-media version. You host the stay or the experience; I write it honestly and photograph it properly, publish it here, and licence you the resulting images for your own use.

Best suited to independent and boutique properties who want photographs that look like their actual place rather than a template. I work in Italy, South Korea and increasingly the United States.

Bernini angel on Ponte Sant'Angelo with Castel Sant'Angelo behind, Rome
The Trevi Fountain in warm late afternoon light, Rome
The Tiber and a lit bridge at blue hour, Rome

Daylight, golden hour, blue hour — all shot on one walking day in Rome. See more in the gallery.

What you actually receive

  • A licensed image set — high-resolution, colour-graded, delivered as finished files. Usage terms agreed in writing before the shoot, not after.
  • A long-form article that is built to be found in search, not to disappear down a feed — written around what a traveller is actually trying to decide.
  • Vertical video from the same shoot where it fits, for your own channels.
  • A permanent, dated page that keeps sending people to you for years, which a story post does not.

How I work, and what I will not do

Every partnership is disclosed clearly at the top of the article — not in the footer, not in grey text. Everything is agreed in a written brief before anyone books anything: deliverables, usage rights, territory, duration, timings.

What I do not do: guaranteed positive reviews, undisclosed paid posts, publishing photographs I did not take, or engagement bought from anywhere. If a place is not good I will decline the piece rather than write around it — which is exactly why a positive piece from me is worth something.

You get approval over the image selection and over anything factual. You do not get approval over my opinion. That line is what makes the article credible to the reader you are trying to reach.

The honest position

Long Way from Seoul is new. I am not going to dress that up with a number that flatters me, because you can check it and because the photographs are the reason to talk to me, not the traffic.

What is true: every image on this site is mine, the writing is first-hand, the audience is English-speaking and concentrated in the United States and the UK, and new articles are published from an existing archive of a two-week Italy trip and ongoing work in Seoul. Current traffic and subscriber figures are sent on request — ask and I will give you the real ones.

If you need scale today, hire someone with scale. If you need photographs your competitors do not have and writing a reader will finish, that is this.

Get in touch

Tell me the property or destination, the dates, and what you need the images for. I will come back with a rate card and a proposed deliverable list within two working days.

Contact → · See the work: Gallery · Read a full piece: One day across Rome

Based in Seoul, South Korea. Available for work in Korea, Italy and the United States. Page last reviewed September 2026.