Travel photography / film / destination storytelling
Stories made
in the field,
not around a desk.
Hāhura is my independent travel production project for tourism boards, hospitality, outdoor, camera and lifestyle brands that need photography and film with a real sense of place.
I work on location, building campaigns around people, landscape, culture and movement. The result is creator-led storytelling for my own audience plus a usable library of stills and video for brand, editorial and social channels.
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Travel photography,
film and field stories.
Case studies from destination work, sponsored productions and personal documentary projects across Europe, North Africa, Asia and beyond.
The place has to stay bigger than the campaign.
I photograph and film destinations through the people, light, weather and small details that make them recognisable. That documentary approach carries into commissioned work for tourism, hospitality and travel brands.
Products and partners are integrated through real use on location, so the commercial work still feels like a journey rather than a staged interruption.
About my approachInternational travel archive
A visual practice shaped across borders.
My travel photography and filmmaking has developed across Europe, North Africa, North America, Asia and Australia, working with different landscapes, cultures and visual rhythms along the way.
Field notes from
behind the camera.
Travel photography essays, destination stories and ideas that first resonated with my community, expanded here beyond the social caption.
Photography does not need to fit the algorithm
Why I would rather adapt a photograph to social than build every photograph for social.
Read essay
Why Iceland still feels like another planet
Scale, weather and finding a slower rhythm inside one of the world's most photographed landscapes.
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Same place, completely different light
Returning to Mirissa instead of chasing the next location.
Read articleEditing tools / Gumroad
Three looks.
One travel workflow.
Lightroom presets built from my own travel photography workflow, shaped across deserts, coastlines, cities, mountains and underwater work.
Open Gumroad
Matt Evans
I photograph places through the people, light and details that make them real.
Italian travel photographer and filmmaker creating documentary-led destination stories, brand campaigns and editorial imagery worldwide.
Full bioPhotography / Film / Social
One production.
Built to travel further.
A single shoot can become campaign photography, short-form film, creator content and a licensed asset library, all produced around the same visual story.
Hero images, documentary sequences, product-in-context frames and vertical assets.
Campaign / Social / EditorialCinematic short-form, travel sequences and campaign-ready moving image.
Reels / Shorts / Brand useNative storytelling through @watchmaev, built to feel part of the journey rather than an interruption.
Instagram / Stories / CommunityA coordinated set of still and motion assets designed to keep working after the original post goes live.
Organic / Paid / InternalCommission a project