After years of spending most of our time homeless and roaming around on adventures. Last fall we were forced to settle for a bit. My 94 year old father was having an increasingly difficult time living alone and most of the help was coming from one sister. So Claire and I moved back to my…
Nicaragua is a personal project of mine. I have been documenting the country and culture since 2012. I’ve been spending the last few weeks volunteering with Social and Conservation NGOs working in Nicaragua. The Wildlife Conservation Society is an international organization striving to preserve endangered species throughout the world. This Darwin Initiative funded project is…
This past July, a group of core American cavers spent 10 days exploring and mapping remote alpine caves in the Bob Marshall Wilderness of Montana. With a surveyed depth of 1,659 ft, “Tears of the Turtle” is the deepest cave in the continental U.S. It is the first 500-meter deep limestone cave in the U.S.A.,…
Last winter Claire and I were caving and packrafting in Northern Thailand. When some friendly cavers, at the cave lodge in Sappong, told us we needed to take are Kokopelli boats to the giant Xe Bang Fai ( Tham Khoun Xe ) river cave in Laos. A week or so later we rolled into the…
I awaken in a panic and spring upright in my sleeping bag. The contents of my stomach are desperately trying to escape. I frantically unzip the tent door and my head exits the door just as vomit sprays onto my shoes outside. The retched sounds are almost drowned out by the orchestra of the rainforest. This has been a…
This project started one morning; when as I walked up to my trusty 1970‘s Schwinn bicycle. I noticed the way the handlebars of two adjacent vintage bikes seemed to be holding each other in a loving embrace. I wasn’t in a rush so I spent a few minutes observing as the light changed. I came…
The Fuji X100 is often said to be a poor mans Leica M9. Perhaps this is true; being that I love the X100 and well I am the 99%. I have shot with this camera almost every day since I got it. I wear it mostly as photog bling and use it for random street…
Hello, world. I’m Braden Gunem. I’m a photographer. I have always had an interest in photography and adventure, probably stemming from time spent in the pages of National Geographic magazines; after all, I still want to go harvest honey in Nepal while dangling from vines. When I was a kid I loved the home video…