What I Do
I work at the intersection of visual culture, publishing, and art-historical research, with a long-standing interest in Southeast Asian visual culture and its connections to Britain.With a background in documentary filmmaking and editorial practice, I have spent two decades collaborating with artists, institutions, and organisations to produce internationally distributed, best-selling art and design books, alongside films and cultural projects. Across this work, I am interested in how images, books, and visual narratives circulate and acquire meaning across different contexts.
Publishing
Co-founder of Stickerbomb and Soi Books, two imprints that connect subculture, art, and design. Soi Books (est. 2022) champions global subculture through collectible and trade art titles, while Stickerbomb World, born from the best-selling Stickerbomb series (published by Laurence King), has evolved into a platform for artists, and online bookstore.My publishing practice is grounded in research, collaboration, and long-term engagement with archives, scenes, and visual histories, aiming to understand the artists and contexts behind each project. Working across roles as editor, curator, and producer, I am interested in how culture moves across borders and how ideas and aesthetics travel between places, media, and disciplines.
Background
Before founding Soi Books, I spent over a decade working in documentary film and long-form storytelling, directing and producing projects for Al Jazeera, ARTE, the BBC, and ITV, as well as selected commercial collaborations.Growing up British Asian and working extensively across Europe and Southeast Asia has shaped a long-standing interest in how stories, images, and cultural forms cross borders and evolve through collaboration. That perspective, informed by film, travel, and editorial work with images and narratives, continues to shape my approach where each book is conceived not only as a narrative, but as a system of images, contexts, and circulation.
Researching | Method
I am currently completing a Postgraduate Diploma in Asian Art at SOAS, University of London, focusing on Southeast Asia, curatorial practice, and image-based histories. I use publishing as a method: working with archives and visual material through editing, sequencing, material decisions, and collaboration to turn complex content into coherent books with cultural, institutional, and commercial value.I have guest lectured at the University of Portsmouth (UK) and Bina Nusantara University (Indonesia), and continue to develop projects that link research, publishing, and creative execution, translating raw material into durable public forms.
Work In Progess
Current projects include Cimarron: The Wild One, a graphic novel with British explorer Dwayne Fields (FRGS); a forthcoming visual design and music publication with Grammy-nominated artist deadmau5; and True World Skate, exploring the next chapter of independent skate culture with Thames & Hudson. I am also completing an independent research project for my SOAS PGDip on the visual and material life of the book, focusing on Lontara’ manuscript traditions of Sulawesi, Indonesia, and writing Foreign, Still, a nonfiction work examining empire, archives, and bureaucratic systems, and how documents shape movement and identity.Each project applies the same editorial approach: shaping complex material into coherent books with clear form, audience, and purpose.
Vision
My work is shaped by movement between Southeast Asia and the UK, and more broadly between Europe and Asia. I am interested in how ideas change as they pass through different cultural, institutional, and subcultural contexts. I am drawn to the tension between archive and practice, history and the present, and to how these can be organised to make meaning that extends beyond the individual.I see books as considered meeting points. They are places where research, images, voices, and decisions come together over time. Unlike short-form media, books demand structure, commitment, and collaboration. That sustained process allows ideas to deepen, circulate, and endure.
Collaborate
I collaborate with publishers, universities, cultural institutions, galleries, and selected commercial partners on book projects and research.Work is undertaken on a project basis, including commissioning, co-editing, and writing, and consideration for teaching or guest roles, particularly where projects centre on objects, archives, collections, or biographical material.
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