Nikt Wong is a storyteller. Only he tells them with his photos. This quiet yet intense 34-year-old Penangite is at the forefront of a new generation of Malaysian photojournalists who travel to the dusty, dangerous corners of our world to document and bring back stories of the human spirit; of tragedy and triumph, fear and laughter. In short, life.
But until just three years ago, Wong was an urbane, Kuala Lumpur-based part-owner of a multimedia company with a healthy disdain for photography. Today, he lives and breathes photography. What happened?