Tom Schutyser is a Belgian documentary photographer, writer and researcher who specializes in architecture, culture, and history. While his professional career in international business has led him through various disciplines and expertise, throughout he has been a traveler, researcher, nomad, restless mind, critical thinker, humanist, and multiculturalist.Schutyser became intrigued by the caravanserais and fascinated by the connections between these centuries-old structures and current international affairs in the Middle East, the West, and the East. His first series of photos from northern Iran resulted in an art collaboration with Gilles Neuray, a series of gallery exhibitions in Portland, USA, and his first solo exhibition in Paris, France, in collaboration with l'Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture (ENSA) of Paris-Val de Seine. In 2009, another four-month road trip through Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan lead to a second visual documentary on the caravanserais. The photographic series "Caravanserais in the Levant" has been exhibited in Lebanon at Silk Factory in Beiteddine and at Art Lounge in Beirut, and in a group photography exhibition at Springbox in Portland, USA. He and his wife Drieke are currently living in the USA. More information can be found on Schutyser's website: www.consideratcaravanserai.net.And on www.facebook.com/pages/Consider-at-Caravanserai/63025709470?ref=ts