And these assignments are what take this lensman to conflict zones. For those who follow him on Instagram can come across his posts from the Sinjar Mountains, Iraq to an all nature studio set up in Sierra Leone. Joey's most favourite subject to date at the time MAG contacted him in December 2017 was, “the anti-ISIS fighters of the Syrian YPG (People's Protection Units) are my main area of focus as a photographer. This is because they are the armed defenders of Kurdish culture – a distinct ethnic minority in the Middle East.”