omakase (お任せ o-makase)
Omakase is a Japanese phrase that means “I’ll leave it to you” (from the Japanese “to Entrust”).

Numbers have meaning, as do dates, and it only seemed fitting that I should hit pause and go back through the thousands of images I had shot since I arrived in Asia. That was 2010, November, and while I had taken photographs before, I hadn’t really paid attention to them, or to the process, the art.

I bought a second hand point and shoot camera in the basement of a run down shopping mall and began taking pictures. I traveled to other countries, tasted new foods, saw new things and fell in love in the process.

When I decided to formalize my images, it was a challenge to go from image maker to image editor. It’s hard to get rid of your children, but I had to select from the over 18,000 photographs I had shot in these 10 years. So, as the title suggests, these are the images I have selected to share with you.