
Strangely, this path led to personal reflection. I soon learned that life is a challenge not to be taken lightly. I became a firefighter, then transitioned into being a paramedic after I broke my back. My injury, as well as my career in emergency medicine, reinforced and refined what I had learned early on. There is much fragility in life and in a breath, it’s over. Being a paramedic taught me the value of every breath and inspired me to see the world.

Admittedly, what I've learned from travel has rendered me incapable of vacationing on a cushioned chair at the beach. I'm a travel snob. When I travel, I want to breathe in the life of a place and a people, to understand who they are, if only to reflect on who I am and want to be.
Travel and reflection inevitably brought me to photography. For me, photography is spirituality. While I cannot say I picked up a camera at age twelve and never looked back, I can say that I'm able to interact with people and places in a deeper, more-fulfilling way than ever before through my lens. I'm still learning, but I hope my photographs give you a knot in your belly, a lingering introspection on how you live and how you want to live. Get out. See things. Do stuff that scares you.
T.S. Robinson is a writer and photographer. He has traversed China with Tibetan nomads, wandered all of Africa, gotten hopelessly lost in Afghanistan and spent months at a time on the swells of the North Sea. He recently lived a year in Sudan.
Very well said, TS! Good to meet you!
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