About me

I always took photographs, wrote and drew. Later I would paint and airbrush. I won my first art prize at age 12 and published my first photograph of a sunset at age 14.

I studied photography, journalism and interior design.

As a press photographer I learnt to think and shoot quickly. I still do it. Very few images are realised on a tripod. I like my equipment to be versatile too because while I’m shooting a portrait I would hate to miss that cat on the roof over there!

I travelled extensively for my design career in the international exhibition industry. I loved this pressured but creative environment which is always cutting edge in its style and which combines the application of materials, technology, graphics and construction in a synergy with the products on display. I also got to visit a heap of places around the world.

What I see through my camera’s lens is like a gift and sometimes profoundly moving to be allowed to witness that particular beauty at that particular moment in that particular place under those particular circumstances!

I think what I see and what I create sometimes live in two different worlds inside me. What an image becomes can sometimes be miles away from what I originally saw. I have drawn, painted and indulged in various forms of creating images in my life. Often a few processes combine to become my work. As Ansel Adams, the famous American landscape photographer said: “The negative is like the composer’s score. All the information is there. The print is a performance.”

I’m more of an observer who allows images to unfold, allowing them to reveal themselves… my press training perhaps. I photograph what is there without comment.

Very often my landscapes and architectural images are devoid of humans. I like to have my viewers connect directly with the essence of my subjects without the ‘human angle’. I think it is a purer form.

I enjoy most to photograph nature, landscapes, architecture and built structures. Patterns and shapes, sometimes created from found images, to me provide an endless joy. I include the human figure in landcapes for its incredible ability to reflect light and make images that tantalize, inspire, awe and shock, always changing with the light and the mood.

I offer my time freely to models to help them enhance their portfolios with fresh photos which in turn benefits my portfolio too. TFCD is the arrangement in which models and I work. We select the best photos from their shoots. Contact me if you would like to collaborate. You are welcome to bring a concept/s to the table.

As an artist my digitographic artwork printed on large stretched canvasses have been exhibited several times in group and solo exhibitions.

I have been asked why I create my art. My answer is always: “I just do.It’s in my nature.”

I live and work in Sydney, Australia.