I didn't plan to stay. I came to Costa Rica in 2016 because a friend was living here and I wanted to be close to the ocean. I was drawn by the idea of tropical life, the warmth, the landscape, the pace of it. I gave myself a short stretch of time to experience it. That stretch became a year. That year became ten. And somewhere along the way, this place stopped being somewhere I was visiting and became my home.
I stayed for the ocean. For the mornings that start slowly, coffee on the porch, birds waking up before everything else does, light coming through the trees in a way that fills my soul. For the days that begin in the water, feeling the first sunbeams touch the surface, the world still quiet, the day not yet decided. I stayed because living by the ocean adds something to my life that I can't quite name and have stopped trying to. I just know it's there.
Costa Rica gave me the landscape, the culture, the people, and a kind of simplicity and complexity existing side by side that I find endlessly interesting. Nature here is extraordinary. I feel genuinely fortunate to call it home.
How photography stopped being a hobbie and started being a piece of me.
For a long time photography was something I did. I enjoyed it, I was drawn to it, but I held it loosely, the way you hold something you're not sure you're allowed to claim.
The shift came about four years ago. Not dramatically. More like a quiet settling into something that had been true for a while before I was ready to say it out loud. I started to understand that I had a point of view. That the way I saw people and places was specific to me. That I could walk into a space or stand in front of a person and notice something that not everyone would notice, and then capture it. I stopped calling it a hobby. I started taking it seriously. And once I did, everything else followed.
Photography now is not something I do alongside my life. It is part of how I move through it. The light on the water in the early morning, the way someone's expression shifts when they stop performing for the camera, the particular quality of golden hour in Guanacaste. I notice these things constantly. I always have. I just finally gave myself permission to build a life around noticing them.
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I have a particular softness for women, for making space where they feel strong, visible, and SEEN exactly as they are.
Women are capable and compassionate, often doing an extraordinary number of things at once. They build communities, hold people together, show up with kindness even when it's hard. And they are frequently made to feel smaller than they are. When I photograph a woman, I want her to feel seen. Actually, I want that for anyone in front of my lens.
I believe in the power of place, that nature and landscape are not just backdrops but active ingredients in great imagery. I believe in authenticity over perfection.
Whether I'm shooting a swimwear campaign, a retreat, or a portrait, my job is to find what is within and make it visible, make it feel felt.
Where do I live? What do I do?
I live in Playa Negra, a small beach town in Guanacaste, forty five minutes from Tamarindo, close to Avellanas, Junquillal, Nosara.
The kind of place where you know your neighbours and the ocean is never far away.
Every project still starts the same way, with a conversation, a genuine curiosity about what someone is building, and a desire to help them show it to the world in a way that finally feels right.
I surf. I box. I run. I read on the beach with a coffee and call it research.
I talk to my family in the Switzerland and the UK regularly and miss them in the background of everything.
My work has grown into something I'm proud of. I shoot brand and fashion campaigns, swimwear, jewellery, lifestyle. I work with retreat leaders and wellness businesses. I'm thinking about working more with models. I have a team of talented people I trust.
I take this work seriously. It is a real business and I show up to it as one. But I am also just a person, someone who chose an ocean town in Costa Rica and never looked back, who finds most of her inspiration before 8am, and who genuinely loves what she does.
If you've made it this far, I'd love to hear about your project.
