About

Hi, this is Sami!

Since when I was a kid, I have always liked to have my pictures taken. I would often stay close to the photographer in events such as birthdays and weddings to spot an opportunity to be in the picture. Not creepy at all. Well, I was just a kid that loved to be in pictures. Lol. 

My first camera was a film one, which made me spend a good amount of money paying to process the film roll to find out that most of the images didn’t turn out great. That didn’t stop me from trying, though. 

I got my first semi-professional camera while living in Virginia in 2014. Still, my intention was to only take pictures as a hobby and not become a photographer until…

I went to the Fourth of July in Washington DC that year, and later I posted some of the pictures that I took on my Instagram. To my surprise, I received a message from PBS asking to use the image in a National Geographic documentary. When the documentary aired in 2015, I was glued to the screen, anxious to see my picture. They used it by the end of the documentary, and the delay in seeing it in there made me wonder if they had actually used it. When the show was almost finishing, I saw it. I SAW IT! It was my own very work at a National Geographic documentary.