The newsletter · Issues 1–10

The Sandbank

A letter from the Maldives about what is actually worth doing here — written by somebody who has been photographing these islands since 2008, and who is usually standing in the water at six in the morning to find out.

For couples

Honeymoons, proposals, weddings and the hours around them.

A couple walking hand in hand along a palm-lined beach, the lagoon pale behind them

Issue 1 · 5 min The hour that makes the photograph Midday in the Maldives is the worst light of the day and the hour most people book. Here is when to be outside instead.

For families

Islands with children in tow, and the generations above them.

A young girl sitting in the fork of a beach tree, her parents standing below her, all laughing

Issue 5 · 6 min Island days with small children Nobody photographs well at four in the afternoon in thirty-one degrees. A day built around that fact instead of against it.

Issue 6 · 5 min Three generations, one sandbank The multigenerational trip is the hardest to organise and the one people are most glad they did. How to photograph it.

For corporate

Conferences, incentives and the logistics of an island programme.

A conference plenary room with branded screens on stage and a full audience seated at round tables

Issue 7 · 6 min A conference on an island Running a summit in the Maldives means every delegate arrives by boat and nothing can be fixed by courier. What that changes.

Issue 8 · 5 min The incentive trip people remember You are not buying a holiday for your top performers. You are buying a story they tell colleagues for three years.

For brands

Marketing libraries, campaigns and activations that have to travel.

The foredeck of a white motor yacht underway, open ocean and sky beyond the bow

Issue 9 · 7 min What a resort marketing library actually needs Most island photo libraries are 4,000 sunsets and no usable hero. A list of what is missing.

Issue 10 · 5 min A brand activation in public Resort photography is a controlled environment. A public event in Malé is not, and that is exactly what makes it worth doing.

Planning one of these?

Every issue above comes out of work done on these islands. If you are planning the trip rather than reading about it, tell me the island and the week and I will tell you what the light is doing.

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Tell me the dates and the island.

A session, a campaign, a private stay or a conference — send the dates, the island and what you need. I come back within six hours with options and hold the date for five days.

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I reply personally — 07:00–22:00 Maldives time.