about US
The future together is all about exploration. Searching for the path less travelled. Finding out what makes the world tick, what makes our blood flow and our hearts sing.
Along the way we've learned that the biggest barriers are rarely mountains or oceans. More often they're the stories we tell ourselves about what is and isn't possible. Every adventure starts long before the first step. It starts with believing there's another way.
Hi, so nice to meet you.
We are Joa & Raïs, with a shared love of documenting stories in remote corners of the world.
A brand that discovers, explores and documents. One story, one expedition and one lesson at a time.
so we built story reMote
trusted by
worked with international brands & Oscar-winning directors,
specialised in long-form video storytelling
Joa,
documentary maker
photographer & videographer ABOVE & under water //
extreme conditions // east-europe holocaust documentary // south soudan w/ unicef // ...
raw & honest storyteller
the mountains & the ocean
the love for epic views
surfing
climbing
epic views
the mountains & alpinism
freediving
climbing
endless stories
ice climbing
we capture stories the way we feel them.
or wherever life takes us...
under the water
on boats
on mountains
in our travel van
whilst climbing
whilst being in planes
or in the snow...
living the story of the earth
whether in tropical climates
Our work has taken us from humanitarian documentaries and remote expeditions to Canon stages, workshops and international events. Along the way we've realised that some stories are best experienced in person.
As explorers and visual storytellers, we've learned that the most valuable lessons rarely come from standing on a stage. They come from the people we've met, the environments we've worked in and the moments that challenged how we saw the world.
Whether we're speaking at an event, leading a workshop or joining a podcast, we don't just talk about photography or filmmaking. We talk about curiosity, preparation, building expertise, and creating a life that feels worth remembering.
If you're looking for speakers who combine documentary experience, commercial storytelling and a genuine passion for exploration, we'd love to continue the conversation.
beyond
the camera
since we met we...
Honored end-of-year photography students
Judged international photo competitions together
Taught workshops together
Appeared on
podcasts together
We have documented raw stories that feel close to heart for us.
but way more importantly...
Life starts when we remain curious enough to explore both the world around us and the person we're becoming.
the elements
Life built intentionally
read more about us in the elements that play incredible value in our lives
I flew there to have a face-to-face chat with the guy I had broken up with 8 months before that. The last time we had seen each other in real life was at a wedding in India. I stayed for 3 days and flew back ON Christmas day on an completely emty plane with the airhosts wearing Christmas hats and Christmas music playing in the background (it sounds funny but it was incredibly sad).
How did Joa & I meet?
Personal story time.
A mutual friend of mine talked about Joa. We were, funnily enough, celebrating New Year's together. I had just taken a plane back from New Zealand a couple of days prior to that.
I had been in Indonesia for about a month when a certain morning I said to the creators in the Lost Creator house (I had just arrived at the house a few hours prior to that), "alright I'm flying to New Zealand! In a couple of hours. I've just decided. I still have to book my tickets".
When you're already in Indonesia from Belgium, 11 more hours to New Zealand isn't that far, was my reasoning.
alright, since you read this far...
On the plane, I wrote a letter to the universe. That I'd meet the man of my life. A man that loves all the things I love, and is ambitious at the same time. (because may I add, most people that are adventurous are not ambitious, and the ambitious ones usually not interested in climbing mountains. It's a difficult find, truly.)
But especially, someone I'd connect with on a soul level. An incredible connection. Because behind shallow metrics like shared interests, can nothing and nobody describe what a true connection feels like.
So fast forward a couple of days, I am spending New Year's with that friend (she's amazing, funny, and also very spontaneous like me), and she talks about Joa, because she had modelled for a photo shoot of him.
She's mentioning the fact that he's also a surfer, a diver and a videographer. I didn't think much of it, until she showed me an image of him.
I cannot put it into words, but when I saw the image I knew I had to send him a message.
It was so weird but.. I just knew.
Joa: "when I saw her message, I had the exact same feeling. I just knew.
I was just about to board a flight for a month to Bonaire, the Carribean. I didn't reply, because I was about to leave, but I though "fuck".
The following month, we talked every single day over message and later over FaceTime. It was absurd, as if we had known each other for a lifetime."
Raïs: After not even having met him, I asked if he'd come with me to Vegas to a business event. He said yes, obviously straight away.
I was like, yes, that's the man for me.
The best things in life happen when you're open for spontanuity.
After a month that seemed like a lifetime, we met in real life and the rest is history.
That same evening Joa suddenly told me he had booked the plane tickets already.
And I can genuounly say (and I tell Joa all the time), I fall in love with him a little more, every single day.
I'm still as wildly in love, if not more, since meeting him.
(If there is one, we'll meet again in the next life too.)
Since then, we've given workshops together, traveled to mountains, recorded courses together, gave keynote talks, podcasts, traveled in a van, and joined forces in telling stories worldwide.
The best things in life happen also happen when you're open to them.
We take our cameras up everywhere. Let's meet somewhere.
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