ABOUT T2K…

I didn’t get into photography because I wanted a hobby. I got into it because the work demanded it. As a coder, I was building websites and applications, but the stock photos I kept reaching for were lifeless, stale, and uninspired. The projects needed something real; an image with pulse, something that could breathe life into what I was creating. That’s when I picked up a camera.

At first, it was just about getting the right shot. Then I dove headfirst into the craft. I taught myself Photoshop and Lightroom, spending nights pushing pixels and fine-tuning edits until I understood not just how to take a photograph, but how to make one speak.

Videography came next. The pandemic locked everyone inside, and streaming became the outlet. I started live-streaming and quickly noticed how much bigger streamers put effort into their intros, their transitions, their visuals. I wasn’t about to stay behind. I picked up a camera with video capabilities and turned the lens on myself. I shot scenes of me walking out of graffiti-smeared alleys, splicing that raw urban grit with gameplay to create stories. That’s when I started pulling Davinci Resolve and Premiere Pro apart, learning how to cut, color, and build motion that actually meant something.

But gear and software will only get you so far. What leveled me up was finding a mentor, a family friend, who’s a double-award-winning master photographer who had mastered light. My time with him was short, but his impact was permanent. He drilled into me that light and the subject’s eyes are everything. From then on, I stopped just experimenting with gear and started chasing light itself; how it falls, bends, shapes, and defines. Not to mention bringing out emotions and attitude from each and every one of my subjects, then capturing it all on camera. That obsession built the style I carry today.

Now, I’ve got a full studio in my house. Walls lined with equipment, from cameras and lenses to flashes, gimbals, modifiers, and backdrops. An arsenal ready to deploy whenever I see fit. I use it in the work I do with Atlas Travel Event Management, where I capture luxury group events across the globe, and I use it when I take on clients who come directly to me for my lighting precision and cinematic eye.

Travel is part of my DNA now. I’m on the road or on the water at least five times a year, hitting Dubai, Europe, the Caribbean. Sometimes on luxury ships, sometimes at resorts, sometimes both. In February, I’ll be running back-to-back gigs: one on a Group Cruise with Atlas Travel Event Management, the other on Aruba’s Eagle Beach, shooting a wedding under one of the most iconic sunsets on the planet.

That’s what T2K is. A Creative Street Photographer, Videographer, and Cinematographer who doesn’t just press buttons but builds experiences, capturing moments that hit harder than stock images ever could. Every frame I shoot is born out of that first frustration with the stale and lifeless, and it’s grown into an obsession with creating work that feels alive.

I’m not waiting for the next great shot. I’m hunting it.