Proposal · dlr Emerging Artist Bursary
Invisible Architectures
[ONE-LINE DESCRIPTION: what the viewer sees and what it is about]
Available for commissions, roles and the stranger kind of commission
I capture real places
and rebuild them as worlds.
Here for
Immersive producer and cinematographer, thirteen years in. I shot the Dior Fall 2023 men's show at the Pyramids of Giza, made a VR documentary for the Dubai Government, and ran 360 degree campaigns for Red Bull, Volkswagen and Vodafone across EMEA. I shoot it, I finish it, I deliver it.
- Bring me
- 360 degree and VR films
Aerial and drone units
Virtual production shoots
Heritage and site capture
I build the tooling the shoot needs. A UE5 plugin that generates synthetic Gaussian splatting datasets. A six camera capture fleet driven from a Python and FastAPI dashboard. Reconstruction pipelines through COLMAP, Postshot and SuperSplat into Unreal. Cinematography on one side, code on the other.
- Bring me
- Real-time and UE5 pipelines
3DGS and photogrammetry
Capture tooling in Python
Technical art and shaders
A practice about what a scan keeps and what it loses. Heritage digitisation as material, point clouds as memory, the gap between a place and its measurement. Currently proposing Invisible Architectures and Memory Layers.
- Open to
- Commissions
Residencies
Installation work
Collaborations
01 · Selected work
Things I made, and how they were made.
[ Film 01 ]Watch
Christian Dior
Dior Fall 2023, Pyramids of Giza
A couture show staged in front of the pyramids, shot at night on protected ground with one chance to get it right.
[ Film 02 ]Watch
Dubai Government · Al Maktoum Foundation
VR Documentary
A virtual reality documentary produced for the Al Maktoum Foundation, from concept through capture and delivery.
[ Reel 03 ]360°
Legacy Development · Grand Egyptian Museum
The Golden Hour Journey
A 360 degree promotional teaser taking the viewer through GEM at the hour the stone turns gold. Proposal developed end to end: treatment, shot plan, delivery.
[ Capture 04 ]UE5
Independent tool
Gaussian Capture Rig
An Unreal Engine 5 plugin that generates synthetic 3D Gaussian splatting datasets: controlled camera arrays, ground truth, no field trip required.
[ Fleet 05 ]Python
Independent tool
Six-Camera Fleet Controller
Six Yi action cameras, one dashboard. Python and FastAPI driving synchronised capture for photogrammetry and splat reconstruction.
[ Site 06 ]Heritage
Google Street View programme
Giza and Petra
Heritage digitisation commissions at the Pyramids of Giza and Petra. Difficult light, protected ground, no second take.
[ Archive 07 ]360°
360Cities · Expert Maestro
The Panorama Archive
One hundred and ninety-three panoramas and counting: Abu Simbel, Dendera, Hatshepsut, Petra, Mount Sinai, the White Desert, Hagia Sophia. Over 311,000 views.
[ Reel 08 ]Brand
Red Bull · Volkswagen · Vodafone
360° Brand Campaigns, EMEA
Immersive campaign work across the region for global brands, from concept through stitch and delivery.
[ Venture 09 ]Studio
Co-founded
Around Egypt VR
A VR studio built around Egyptian sites and stories: production, pipeline and distribution under one roof.
[ Scene 10 ]ICVFX
IADT · capstone
Celtic Church Cinematic
A virtual production cinematic in Unreal Engine 5.6: Blueprints, MetaHuman performance, and a twelfth-century Hiberno-Romanesque build.
[ Proposal 11 ]Art
dlr Bursary · Stillorgan Library Commission
Invisible Architectures / Memory Layers
Two proposals turning heritage scanning back on itself: what the point cloud keeps, and what it quietly throws away.
Panels without a still are waiting on one. [ADD 16:9 STILL PER PROJECT]
More on film
02 · The rig
Sensor to engine, end to end.
Most people stop at one half of this. I own the whole chain, which is why the reconstruction usually survives contact with the shoot.
01 Capture
- Insta360 Pro 2
- DJI aerial
- Six-camera Yi fleet
- Cinema and 360 rigs
02 Reconstruct
- COLMAP
- Postshot
- SuperSplat
- Photogrammetry
03 Build
- Unreal Engine 5
- Blender
- Houdini
- Substance suite
04 Code
- Python
- FastAPI
- Blueprints
- C++ and GLSL
05 Finish
- Nuke compositing
- Virtual production
- ICVFX
- Delivery and mastering
03 · Practice
A scan is never the place.
I have spent years pointing instruments at old stone. Giza, Petra, the Grand Egyptian Museum. Every capture is a decision about what gets to survive: which surfaces are recorded, which are noise, which are quietly discarded by an algorithm that has never been there.
My independent work sits in that gap, heritage digitisation turned back on itself, point clouds treated as memory rather than measurement.
Proposal · Stillorgan Library Digital Arts Commission
Memory Layers
[ONE-LINE DESCRIPTION: what the viewer sees and what it is about]
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04 · About
Chemistry first, then cameras, then engines.
I started with a BSc in Chemistry and Physics in Alexandria, which is a strange run-up to a camera but explains a lot about how I work: measure it, understand the system, then break it on purpose. Thirteen years later I have co-founded a VR company, led an immersive media unit, and shot 360 degree work for some of the largest brands in EMEA.
I am now completing a BA in Immersive Media Production at IADT Dún Laoghaire, based in Dublin, working in English and Arabic.
- Now
- BA Immersive Media Production, IADT Dún Laoghaire
- Before
- BSc Chemistry and Physics, Alexandria University
- Built
- Co-founder, Around Egypt VR · Head of Immersive Media Unit, EG-Gate
- Training
- CoSTAR Screen Lab, Studio Ulster · Nuke compositing, NTA VFX
05 · Contact
Tell me about the place.
Productions, pipeline work, residencies, or a job that needs someone who can do both halves. Dublin based, travels for the shoot.