Latitude Zero is the culmination of a twenty-five-thousand-mile odyssey that begins at the mouth of the Amazon and moves westward, documenting the precious pact between humanity and nature within the equatorial zone.

No itinerary or agenda was necessary: the purpose was to be as visually playful and uninhibited as possible, simply to be authentic and to record life with a capital L. Any point within the zone was fair game, unless geography or politics dictated otherwise. Imagine a meal of beans and rice deep in the rainforest of southern Colombia with the guerrillas, or eating turtles laced with honey with Congolese pygmies, or dining in a loud, testosterone-driven petrol platform canteen off the Atlantic coast of Gabon.