I only heard about typhoons from the TV news before. So when I moved to Taiwan and was told that one of them is actually 'coming', I had mixed feelings. In my mind there were all these images of destruction combined with the dry facts about the numbers of casualties and millions of dollars lost due to the damage. When the first typhoon in the season hit Taiwan three years ago, I decided to take the camera and check it out by myself. Since then I've experienced three typhoon seasons, photographed 10 typhoons and travelled thousands of kilometers along the east coast of Taiwan. I focused on the 'calm before the storm' moments, just hours before the typhoon's arrival. I discovered a different, more poetic and beautiful side of this natural phenomenon.
