The staged fables in this body of work are collaborations between myself, the locals acting out the scene and those helping me to source props, costumes and appropriate landscapes.

Wars have been waged over it, workers have been paid in it, taxes from it have built cities and helped them to flourish and it has been traded all over the world for millennia.

As relations between Iran and the United States ebb and flow, the strategically important Strait of Hormuz remains a concern for countries around the world.

Kumari are young girls in Nepal worshipped as deities by both Hindu’s and Buddhists. Sometimes chosen as young as two years old, the children, who are always from a Buddhist family, are said to be the reincarnation of the Hindu goddess Durga.