In 2010 I travelled overland, hitchhiking from China to Britain, in an attempt to experience and capture the cultural shift that takes place as one moves from Asia to Europe. On the way I found the Caspian, the world’s largest inland sea, languishing quietly between two great continents. It represents the kernel of my journey and is the place where Asia begins to dissolve into Europe. Although the Caspian sea is known best for it's global oil industry, I found myself drawn to the unusual phenomena taking place at it's fringes.

I spent time in Azerbaijan with people bathing in crude oil as a form of health remedy, and camped with grave builders in Kazakhstan constructing elaborate tombs for the new oil rich middle class.

This is a work in progress.