I began photographing weddings a few years ago while creating a documentary story about the ritual and ceremony involved in an indigenous Kenyan marriage. I continue to photograph the magic of weddings, but now do so in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Some of my first photographic subjects were actually wildlife and landscapes in East Africa-my childhood home. But Kenya is also a place of incredible cultural diversity and I soon turned my camera toward people.

I went on to study photojournalism at Syracuse University in New York and since then have photographed short and long-term projects in more than 15 countries. While living in the Philippines for three years, I completed assignments for The Far Eastern Economic Review, Newsbreak, Business Week, and TIME-Asia. And since returning from Southeast Asia in 2004, I've shot in-depth photo essays for The Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, and Bloomberg News.