// Photographer · Naturalist · Scientist · Traveller
Twelve disciplines. One lens. Wherever curiosity leads — from deep-sea vents to desert light — the image waits.
Areas of Study
Remote ecosystems, untouched terrain, and the quiet drama of geological time.
Long exposures into deep sky. The cosmos as a photographic subject.
Ethnographic encounters — the face as archive, the glance as history.
Underwater photobiology and the alien architecture of reef systems.
Cities as living organisms — rhythm, density, and the geometry of human space.
The Photographer
Marcus Veld spent a decade as a research biologist before the camera became his primary instrument. What began as field documentation evolved into a cross-disciplinary practice that refuses categorical boundaries.
His work has appeared in National Geographic, Nature, Le Monde, and exhibited at the Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art. He approaches each discipline — from astrophysics to ethnography — with equal rigour and wonder.
How I Work
Every project begins in literature — scientific, historical, ethnographic. The image is a hypothesis before it's a shutter click.
Extended time in-field. Days or months, never hours. Presence is the prerequisite for proximity.
Technical precision without clinical detachment. Analogue and digital coexist in the same kit.
The edit is the argument. Sequencing, toning, and restraint complete what the field began.
Get in Touch
Available for editorial assignments, scientific expeditions, gallery licensing, and long-term documentary collaborations.