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In the summer of 2007 I started out on a 14 month long overland journey with my Land Rover across Africa. The trip followed several restless years of covering Asia, Africa and the Middle East, but mainly Iraq, as a photojournalist for international print publications. I felt terribly exhausted and thought I was losing focus and the mental strength that I believe is required in order to do my work in a meaningful way.
To put it bluntly: I was 29-years- old and thought I was going insane.
During my long journey, that took me to 36 different countries and made me circle the entire African continent by road, I was eventually able, after a long and sometimes painful struggle, to come to terms with the pictures in my head and the ghosts that haunted me. I not only became a superb Land Rover mechanic, visa gatherer and road block negotiator in the many months on the road, I most importantly became a human being again. Two-thirds of the journey I was accompanied by my then girlfriend Chiho and we are now working on a book, a story about a great adventure in its truest sense, and a discovery of balance, life and ultimately, love.