Documentary Travel Photographer Rafael Ben Ari photography and videography work in Oceania region My family and I traveled across New Zealand, chasing light through vast landscapes and capturing the raw beauty of its culture and wild horizons. From there, the journey carried us deeper into the Pacific—Fiji, the Cook Islands—where turquoise waters met ancient traditions and time seemed to slow under tropical skies. It was a dream I had carried for years, sparked by Paul Gauguin’s Tahiti paintings—an urge to immerse myself in color, warmth, and distant cultures. To see the tropics with my own eyes. To explore the exotic and unfamiliar. To live fully—and create freely.
