About Andy
The story behind
Places We Keep.
For much of my life, I thought about journeys in terms of where they were taking me next. The next project. The next responsibility. The next city. Only later did I begin to understand how much meaning there was in the places I had already been.
Looking back
I remember
places.
When I look back now, I do not see my life as a list of titles or milestones. I see places, people, experiences and moments connected across time.
I remember the people I worked with, the teams we built, the challenges we faced, and the ordinary days that eventually became part of a much larger story. I also remember the life around the work: cities I walked through, time outdoors, trails I rode, and experiences that stayed with me long after I came home.
That is where Places We Keep comes from. The most meaningful parts of our lives often form patterns we only understand when we stop and look back.
India · around 2010
An earlier version
of myself.
One of the earlier photographs in this collection was taken in India, around 2010. At that point, I was still building my professional journey and gaining experience in an international environment.
At the time, I was naturally focused on what came next: the next project, the next responsibility, the next challenge. Looking at the photograph now, I see something different. I see an earlier version of myself standing at the beginning of a much longer road.
There is something powerful about returning to a place through an old photograph. What once felt like an ordinary part of life becomes a marker of how far we have traveled.
Taiwan · 2015
A life beyond
work.
Work has never been the whole story. Travel, being outdoors, and simply experiencing somewhere different have always mattered to me.
Mountain biking became part of that life as well. There is something deeply satisfying about following a trail through a landscape: climbing, navigating, struggling at times, and eventually realizing that the line you followed has become part of your memory of the place.
A trail may look like nothing more than a line on a map. To the person who rode it, that line can hold an entire experience.
Paris · 2016
Places become
memory.
In 2016, Paris became another place in my story. What stays with me is not simply the architecture or the fact that I visited a famous city. It is the way places become connected to particular chapters of our lives.
When you return to an old photograph, you do not only remember what was in front of the camera. You remember who you were at that time, what life felt like, what had already happened, and how much was still ahead.
A city can become part of a personal timeline. A photograph can turn geography into memory.
China · 2017
The people
along the way.
The photograph from a team-building event in China represents another important part of my journey: people.
As a career develops, it becomes increasingly clear that very little of consequence is accomplished alone. We work with people, learn from them, disagree with them, solve difficult problems together, and share both successes and difficult periods.
Years later, the details of individual meetings or projects may fade. We often remember the people who were there.
Professional chapters · 2018 / 2021
The title is visible.
The journey is not.
The photographs from 2018 and 2021 show a more formal side of my life. They represent later stages in my professional journey, including my years with PwC and my role as a partner.
Professional milestones matter. They represent years of work, decisions, persistence, responsibility and learning. But a career cannot really be understood from a title alone.
What a formal portrait cannot show are all the earlier versions of ourselves, the people who helped us, the places we worked, the setbacks, opportunities and thousands of ordinary days between one milestone and the next. A career is not one photograph. It is the line connecting all of them.
Toronto · 2024
The ordinary places
matter too.
There is nothing ceremonial about this photograph, and that is exactly why I like it.
Not every meaningful place in our lives is connected to a major milestone. Sometimes it is simply a street we walked down, a morning coffee, a neighborhood, or a familiar corner of a city.
The places we keep are not always famous. They become important because our lives happened there.
Atlanta · 2026
The journey
continues.
By 2026, many professional chapters had already been written. But curiosity had not disappeared. Neither had the desire to go somewhere new, walk around, look at things, and experience another place.
I do not think our journeys end when we reach a particular title, age, or milestone. There is always another place to see, another trail to ride, another person to meet, another experience that may seem ordinary today and become meaningful years from now.
Why Places We Keep
The places we continue
to carry with us.
Over time, all of these experiences changed the way I think about memory. A life can contain thousands of days, yet sometimes a few places can bring an entire chapter back. A career can span decades, but a handful of cities may tell its story. A trail can hold the memory of one unforgettable ride.
The name Places We Keep is not only about geography. It is about the places where we became someone new, where important people entered our lives, where we struggled, celebrated, worked, traveled, loved, explored, or simply spent enough time that the place became part of us.
Some are far away. Some are around the corner. Some are trails through mountains. Some are city streets. What connects them is not their location. It is their meaning.