A little about me

Hello there!


Thank you for checking out unordinaryworld.com. You’ve found the part where I have to write about myself without the detached anonymity of professionalism, so the following is pure me, devoid of any pretensions. For although I take my work seriously, I haven’t quite managed to apply the same to myself.

It’s a useful attribute to keep one grounded when one finds themselves living a life that, at times, can seem too good to be true.

By profession I’m a videographer, by passion I’m an adventurer, and by aspiration I’m a writer/presenter with an ambition of awakening a sense of wonder and a hunger for connection in anyone who comes across my work. I believe it could be my own way of making the smallest of positive impacts on the world.

When I’m not working on my Adventure Together project, I’m a freelance videographer based in Ireland. It’s a craft that keeps challenging me – which I need – and one which allows me to remain involved with my background.

I come from a family of musicians, and until the Covid Pandemic, my path was in opera. My time was spent studying classical singing, working chorus in productions, and teaching piano part time. And yes, I served my time on the Dublin gig circuit fronting a hard rock band which did wonders for my vocal chords. Those years, and those horse whiskey-sweat nights, form the core of my early-twenties nostalgia. I have a teaching diploma in piano, and a performance diploma in classical voice from the Royal Irish Academy of Music, and years of teaching experience. The majority of my students were children, and one of my proudest achievements is not the consistently high grades my students received, but rather the holistic and communication-based approach I developed to nurture a healthy, self-rewarding relationship with music and music education in each individual child, whilst still following a classical method and imparting a solid technical foundation. I know this from the number of students who continued to study piano after I left Ireland, and from the continued personal relationship I maintain with them or their families. It’s about active connection on an individual basis – essential to getting a five-year-old to practice their scales willingly!

I have a Bachelors Degree (honours) in History and Politics & International Relations from University College Dublin. From a young age I was captivated by the lure of the past, or rather my imagination of it. I believe so much of why the world is how it is can be understood by investigating and questioning how past generations understood their world, their immediate concerns and actions in response to challenges. Beyond the macro history, one can almost relate to past lives through passing anecdotes in sources, or in mundane daily-life artifacts. It leaves you with an expanded perspective of life and time, and the unchanging nature of the human experience despite a rapidly changing world. It’s a viewpoint that greatly informs my own work, and one which I think has some merit in these most uncertain of times.

I keep myself up to date in a number of fields of interest, but academia ultimately wasn’t for me. During my university years most of my time outside of the library was taken up with my music studies and teaching. However, I did find the time to make the varsities fencing team, fencing foil – the lightest and most complex weapon in Olympic fencing (depending on who you ask).
After graduating I spent a year intensively dance training with notions of becoming a professional tango dancer, but Covid, perhaps thankfully, brought an end to that, and a beginning to my travels. It was time, a now or never time, to break out.
From 2020 – 2023 I bounced around Europe, au pairing in Paris, lockdown in Portugal, adjusting to life without a clear direction in Marseille, before settling in Cordoba. This time was needed; I was adamant that this time round, whatever direction I would end up taking, it would be one of my choosing. And here I am.

When I say life, at times, seems almost too good to be true, it’s not meant with any tone of arrogance or boastfulness. Rather, I am simply grateful to be able to do what I want to do, and I savour the special moments; waking up with the sunrise next to my bike with a whole unknown stretching to the horizon; that feeling I get when I nail a shot I’m happy with; when I hear from strangers on the internet say how my work has impacted them; I am very aware of how lucky I am to be in this position. And I have every intention of pursuing this vision to its potential.

So if you’re here to view my videography work, or my passion projects; if you’re considering getting in touch with me, please do. Let’s see what we can come up with together.

Thanks again, see you on the road,

Ferdia