Jeremy Curl

Explorer, photographer, writer

Jeremy Curl is an explorer and photographer who has always set out to illustrate lives far removed from his own. He has a deep interest in indigenous people who have proudly continued their way of life despite the spectre of encroaching globalisation. This pride in one’s identity is what has always lured Jeremy abroad, to find the thrill of another world that is unlike our own and to use it as a mirror in which we can see our own life.

In 2008, Jeremy crossed the Sahara with the Touareg tribes that live there, photographing their harsh way of life and the bitter skirmishes they fight that is currently splintering the Sahara. He covered two thousand kilometres on foot and by camel, arriving in Timbuktu after crossing the Tanezrouft, the most arid part of the Sahara that the Touareg call the “Land of Terror”, becoming the first in living memory to do so. He also became the youngest non-African to traverse the Sahara, unsupported and without motorised transport.

Jeremy pursued a career in travel after navigating the Potaro River to the Kaieteur Falls with the Amerindians of the Amazon. Since then, he has worked in the Middle East, most notably Iran and Kurdistan, and throughout Asia and Africa. In Cuba he interviewed the Castro family about Cuba’s political future. He has most recently returned from photographing the break-away republic Transnistria, a frozen conflict zone between Moldova and the Ukraine. He returned having taken pictures that have never before been seen outside the Republic.

Jeremy was born in 1982 in Japan, and read History at Utrecht University, The Netherlands and Lund University, Sweden. His articles and photographs have been published in a number of national and international magazines in both Europe and America. In 2009 Jeremy was nominated for a Rolex Award for Exploration and Discovery while the start of 2010 saw his photographs forming a solo exhibition at the Coningsby Gallery in London.