FIELDS Life

Photographer and creative director Dan Carter reflects on finding stories in unfamiliar places, leaving room for chance and the responsibility that comes with making images.

For Dan Carter, photography began where words fell short. Fifteen years on, his focus has shifted from expressing his own experience to understanding other people’s. Working between cities and cultures, he’s drawn to the people who give a place its character, the light that changes a scene and the moments no shot list could anticipate.

With much of this year spent in Dakar, Senegal, we caught up with Dan to talk about instinct, identity and what it means to make work with purpose.

Photographer Aart Verrips' work has been featured in Time, Vogue Italia, Harper's Bazaar, Sunday Times Edit, and GQ South Africa. We chatted with him about his dream subject, working with Time Magazine, the importance of collaboration and our recent shoot together.