For the past two decades, I’ve worked in visual media and journalism education, gaining experience producing, shooting, editing, promoting, organizing, negotiating, recruiting, and managing.
My commitment to the power of visual communication to bring understanding to the world has underpinned my career path and brought me around the world.
I live in Hong Kong where I work as Lead Video Producer at the South China Morning Post, supervising a small team, overseeing the production of news videos and editorial futures, as well as telling stories about people’s passions and social developments in my video work.
I am also a part-time teaching staff at Hong Kong Baptist University, teaching ‘Generative AI-Assisted Reporting’ and ‘Entrepreneurial Journalism’ to MA students in International Journalism.
Before www.scmp.com, I joined a branch of Chinese state media China Daily to help launch their Hong Kong multimedia department and organize video workshops at newsrooms in Bangladesh, mainland China, Malaysia, and Thailand.
As co-founder of NOOR, based in Amsterdam, I built the agency into a worldwide operation that worked with many of the most important publications and NGOs.
Photo: Ben Marans, 2024
Representing some of the most outstanding photojournalists and filmmakers, I learned the ropes of the industry, managing NOOR’s day-to-day guts, including securing partnerships, formalizing a competitive commercial structure, and kick-starting projects.
Before NOOR, I managed educational programs in photojournalism at the World Press Photo Foundation, working extensively in the Caucasus, Colombia, Morocco, and Nigeria.
Throughout my career, I have supported and facilitated the work of visual journalists, teaching young photojournalists and video producers, while continuing to reinvent myself with new tools and ways to tell my own visual stories. I regularly do curatorial and moderator stints in the international field of visual storytelling. I’m on photography contest juries and teach multimedia workshops.
My academic background is in Visual Anthropology (Master of Arts at the University of Amsterdam).
I can be reached via e-mail, tel. +852.9458.9412 or social media:
