THE RIVER LAB

THE RIVER LAB Assignment for Leibniz Magazine in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region of Italy 2025 If you gaze into a river long enough, the river will gaze back at you. Paraphrasing Nietzsche, this is the impression one gets when watching Alexander Sukhodolov at work on the Tagliamento. With slow, fluid movements, he sets up […]

NEW EXPERIENCES WITH FIRST NATION PEOPLE ON COUNTRY

EXPERIENCES WITH FIRST NATION PEOPLE ON COUNTRY Assignment for Australian Geographic in the Kimberley region of Western Australia 2023 When Bardi Jawi woman Rosanna Angus looks across the world’s largest tropical tides, here in north-west Western Australia where they teem past 2-billion-year-old rocky islands, she sees things most others don’t. Rosanna is the Dampier Peninsula’s […]

THE HIGH TECH GAMBLE ON GREEN HYDROGEN

THE HIGH TECH GAMBLE ON GREEN HYDROGEN Assignment for The New York Times in the Pilbara region of Western Australia 2023 For eons, a remote parcel of the Australian Outback has been a quiet, unremarkable place. Thousands of square miles of flat land covered in shrubs and red dirt. The sun is withering and the […]

JAKUB CECH

JAKUB CECH Assignment for Nature Magazine in Prague, Czech Republic 2024 How I create virtual twins for fabrics and furniture: Jakub Cech creates digital versions of materials for use in the virtual world. I work in the home-goods industry, building virtual worlds that are faithful to reality, to aid online sales. For example, I might make […]

THE VERY HUNGRY MICROBES THAT COULD, JUST MAYBE, COOL THE PLANET

THE VERY HUNGRY MICROBES THAT COULD COOL THE PLANET Assignment for The New York Times in the Isola del Giglio, Italy 2025 Fifty miles off the Tuscan coast, in a sparkling blue expanse broken only by rocky, forbidding islets, including the real-life Island of Montecristo, ancient creatures are roosting beneath the waves.They spend their days […]