Carsten ten Brink is a writer, artist and photographer. He was born in Germany and raised in Australia, Japan and the United Kingdom, where he studied. After obtaining his Bachelors and Masters at Cambridge, he initially worked in the private sector. He has since studied creative writing, photography and Latin American history, politics and culture in London. He travels extensively and has been in Latin America more than twenty times. He has worked as a volunteer conservationist, archaeologist and vulcanologist and has put up his tent in deserts, mountain valleys and rainforests. His photographs have been viewed over 30,000,000 times on the internet and have been published widely. Next to short prose projects, he is currently editing a political novel and preparing a book about New Guinea.