GI INC

GI INC is a creative agency providing clients with a customized response to their production, design Our business is the production of artfully crafted stories.

Grateful Inconvenience Inc is both a business and an ideology. Our vision is to leverage the success and access of our company to facilitate profitable and impactful relationships around the world for the purpose of bringing opportunity, understanding and physical and emotional wholeness to people from every walk of life. We firmly believe that every person walking this planet matters and has a pa

rt to play in its history, no matter how small or insignificant that part may seem. Our goal is to provide clients with a customized response to their production, design and logistics requirements. The team assigned to each project is hand picked based on the scope of need, location and duration of engagement. This ensures the most tailored result possible. GI INC is able to operate on a global scale, with production, design and logistics assets in Europe, The Americas & Canada, Australia, Asia (including mainland China and North Korea) and Africa.

07/01/2019

“Wrong and different are not the same thing. “

06/30/2019

“Normal Is Just a matter of opinion.”
@ White Avenue Studio

06/25/2019

“She is a child of the desert. She is undaunted.” - child of Africa

06/22/2019

Perhaps the most sturdy bridge across the expanse between two different cultures is the sharing of a smoke. I’ve puffed more local herb concoctions than I can count, wrapped in newspaper, stuffed in a joint of bamboo, a dried banana leaf, the shaft of a Bic pen. The Moi have a particularly keen love of a good smoke. I remember the scent of it being pungent and not at all unpleasant. The smoke had a bit of a bite to it when inhaled. My eyes watered the first time I tried it but I got used to it pretty quickly. @ West Papua

06/21/2019

For the Moi people of West Papua their pigs are family. They are their most nourishing source of food, their measure of wealth and status, their currency. Anyone in the village can look at a set of tracks imprinted in the muddy mountain clay and instantly tell you who’s pig it is that had recently passed. In the village where I lived, in a less remote part of the island, some missionaries who had spent decades working with the people related a story to me about when, after developing a phonetic alphabet for that particular people group they began to offer literacy lessons. The people simply couldn’t grasp the idea that those strange symbols scratched on a chalk board were the pictures of their words. The missionaries were almost at their wits end when one day, in conversation with a villager the old man pointed out the recent tracks of a large pig and indicated who’s it was simply by recognizing the unique characteristics of that particular set of tracks. The next time the group of villagers interested in solving the mystery of ‘drawing their talk’ gathered, the missionary explained to them that letters were like pig tracks. In the same way they memorized the shape of every pig’s track in the village and put a name to it they must memorize each letter and put a sound to it. Everyone was delighted and almost immediately caught on to the art of drawing and recognizing the ‘tracks’ that made their words.
I shot these pictures while producing a documentary film. There are about 800 people on earth that speak the Moi language. Many who got word that we were there and traveled in from remote mountain camps had never seen white skins before. Several times while we were there I saw this woman nursing her pig like a baby. I’ve had many reminders like this that, normal is just a matter of opinion. These were some of the first images I ever took with any sort of serious camera. It definitely sparked something in me a good many years before I really began to take photography seriously. @ West Papua

06/20/2019

“A Quest of any kind is a heroic journey. It is a rite of passage that carries you to an inner place of silence and majesty... ”
- Denise Linn

06/12/2019

“Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that's the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing. Nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him if he gives too much. “ - Alan Paton (Cry, the Beloved Country) May it not be so for this generation!!
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Planning logistics for my upcoming shoot in ! Can’t wait!

06/09/2019

Planning a very special trip to Namibia in a few weeks! I’m particularly excited about this trip because I get to be entirely creative with this project. I have a very specific vision in my head for what I want to capture and how it will be rendered. I’m very much looking forward to sharing the adventure!

05/31/2019

A glint of pristine brightness.... Photographed in a slum in Mumbai for

05/30/2019

I’m starting to think creatively about a new project with ......
I photographed this sweet one while working on a project with for The Exodus Road. I have spent much time in third word places all over this planet. The thing perhaps above all else that strikes me wherever I go is the juxtaposed beauty and softness of children. The backdrop of most images I take is the hard and grating reality of extreme poverty. While I think it’s important to portray the wide shot that encompasses this truth the shots that I’m most drawn to are those that bring us in to a single poignant gaze. Children have a way of reminding us that anything is possible. Their wide, honest stare is without agenda or bias. They are innocent and curiosity has not yet been chased into the darkest corners of a realistic mind. That innocence is a sacred thing.

05/29/2019

Perhaps the thing that I find most fascinating and thrilling about the work I do is the people that I get to meet and build friendships with. has succeeded wildly in life. For more than a decade he played the leading roll in building a global restaurant franchise that is widely considered to have set the gold standard for ethical sourcing. The company’s financial success as a publicly traded stock led the market period for a decade straight. Monty’s roll as CEO of was actually his second successful run at leading a company. I often meet people who are considered for any number of reasons to be very successful so, while I respect his business acumen and achievements in the market place, that is not really why I have come to admire him. When I first received a call from about the possibility of working on a project with Monty and words like kind and humble were continuously used to describe him I admittedly felt a familiar and, if not wholly cynical than certainly a cautious, skepticism. The first quick dinner meeting that I had with Monty and David turned into hours of deep and punctuated conversation. That is to me something I find to be quite rare and valuable. When in the course of a conversation you find yourself easily traversing the peaks and valleys of a vast range of strange and familiar topics. Where tears and laughter duel with equal alacrity. I’ve since spent many late nights, phone calls and days on set with Monty and David and each time feels like a continuation of that first and memorable meeting. I have found, much to my relief, that Monty and the people he surrounds himself with, indeed are kind and uninterested in the expected accolades of success that most often obscure any true picture of those that society lauds. This to me is what is most worthy of honor.
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HMU
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Thanks @ Columbia, Tennessee

05/27/2019

Getting into the zone pre-shoot the other day. Thanks for the snap.

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