Many photographers are asked what kind of photography they do. They want to know what your life with a camera is like. Who we are and what we do can feel like defining characteristics and we can live half our life trying to find out who we are. For the photographer in the article, the question of who he was led him into a career in cultural photography. He became fascinated with how people view the world.

The photographer realized that his interest was in culture. Culture can be not only in rural areas around the world, but in communities in urban cities. Culture photography contains aspects of various fields of photo. There could be a combination of documentary, portrait, architectural, street, landscape, and various other fields of photography.

The photographer shot his pictures in black-and-white, which is unique. However, when he approached Nat Geo for a project, they told him that his work had to be shot in color. The reason he shoots in black is because it reflects an aspect of culture. The photographer looked up to Nat Geo as a child, but he realized that his style of photo was clearly very different as they didn’t like his black-and-white approach to culture photography.