Learnt photography during his study at the Faculty of Communication in Padjajaran University, Bandung (2000).
Starting his career as a freelance photographer in Bandung in 2004 before moving to the Jakarta based Bobo Magazine, under a Kompas Gramedia Group, as a staff photographer in 2008. In Bobo, he is assigned to create photo stories over Nusantara heritages in a special page titled ‘Potret Negeriku’ or “The Portraits of My Country”.
Among some photo contests he ever got awarded are: The winner of Animal Photo Contest for journalists in Bali Safari and Marine Park (2009) and the winner of Sun Life Photo Contest (2013).