Major subjects in his work have included the collapse of the Soviet Union, and India.

[3] His freelance career began in 1982, at which time he also taught at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium.

Major subjects in his work have included the collapse of Soviet Union and India.

In late 2024, he stirred controversy with a new book called Putin’s Dream, created with the help of AI.

The book drew both fierce criticism as well as praise for its pushing of boundaries, openness to working with new technologies and interrogating the place of AI in the future of photography.