About Nomad Photography
Nomad Photography is a personal photography project driven by a deep curiosity for the world and the people who inhabit it. Through my camera, I aim to travel across cultures, borders, and everyday lives to capture moments that reveal our shared humanity.
My goal is not only to document how people look, but how they live, feel, and connect. I want to photograph traditions, rituals, daily routines, and quiet moments that often go unnoticed, yet say so much about who we are as human beings. Each image is meant to tell a story — one rooted in respect, empathy, and genuine connection.
Nomad Photography seeks to show the human side of the world: the warmth behind a smile, the strength in resilience, and the beauty found in cultural diversity. By focusing on people rather than places alone, I hope to challenge stereotypes and bring viewers closer to lives that may be very different from their own, yet deeply familiar at the same time.
Through photography, I wish to create a visual bridge between cultures and remind the world that, despite our differences, we share the same hopes, emotions, and desire to be seen and understood.
Background
Behind Nomad Photography is Michael Tillegreen Dagø, a seasoned architect and photographer living in Copenhagen, Denmark.
He has been passionate about photography for many years - but the work as architect have been the breadwinner and photography has been projects done passionately in the spare time.
The plan for the future is to let photography take over and to take more time for creating new photographic projects.
Focus
A mix between culture, nature, art and architecture
First project has been about climate change -and the historic consequences of climate change in Cambodia..
The projects title is: Where the water flows
Current Focus
Nature, people, cityscapes and all in between
Next project was the greatest of all human gatherings - happening in northern India every 12 years at Prayag, in Allahabad. A religious festival with more than 100 million pilgrims visiting the festival during the great Kumbh Mela.
The projects name is : Kumbh Mela - The city of Gods