I'm Saam.

For twenty years I've had a healthy obsession with photography. Since finding my dad's camera bag at sixteen, complete with Yashica FR-1 and Tamron and Zeiss lenses, it's been a curiosity to tell visual stories of new and interesting things.

The art and practice became serious when I was dropped in the middle of South and Southeast Asia with a serendipitous Nikon D40x; not the most impressive camera, but one that let me scratch the itch when times needed it. I was able to travel from Bangladesh to India and through Thailand to Vietnam. Australia and Canada came later but proved just as interesting at times. I now live in the states, looking for the same qualities that made Asia so interesting to me at the time.

I shoot with a Fujifilm X-T5 and typically carry 8mm prime and 16-55mm 2.8 lenses. My current documentary interests are adult baptisms, my kids, and advocacy uniquely southern.