New York City → Zhangjiajie

From New York's grimmest chapters to West Africa's most haunting corridors of human suffering — both cities hold spaces where history demands you bear witness.

From Ghana's slave castles carved and built from stone into tools of oppression, to Ethiopia's rock-hewn churches carved from stone into acts of devotion — stone doesn't lie, only humans decide what to do with it.

From churches carved into living rock where Ethiopian Orthodox faithful pray for eternity, to the ghats of Varanasi where Hindus seek liberation from the cycle of rebirth — some cities exist purely as portals between the human and the divine.

From photographing Varanasi's chaotic, incense-soaked streets teeming with human life, to framing the impossible gravity-defying pillars of Zhangjiajie that look like they were Photoshopped by nature itself — both cities break your camera's idea of what reality looks like.