I've carried a camera with me since I was 15. My first was a Box Brownie, I kid you not. At that tender age I was a keen backyard astronomer, so I spent many nights experimenting with time exposures, capturing star trails. I joined the high school photography club. Sometimes my shutterbug mates and I would skip classes in favour of hiding out in the school darkroom, processing and printing our black and white shots. When I left high school I wanted to be a press photographer; my first gig was at a local photographic studio working as an assistant; eight hours a day in the darkroom slaving over trays of chemicals.
I won a few awards in the local agricultural show photgraphic competition. Figuring that the local television station could use a talented bloke like me, I took a portfolio of my winning shots and scored an interview with the manager. The next day I got a telegram; I was now a Junior Production Assistant. And so began my career in television, not behind a stills camera but a TV camera. The rest as they say is history. Even though I was capturing the moving image, my interest in stills photography continued to develop.
My work has taken me around Australia, the United Kingdom, Russia, Europe, India, South America and southeast Asia.
From war zones to peace rallies, rock stars to presidents, prisons to nuclear reactors; you name it, I've shot it - with a camera.
My television work is showcased on my other website which you can view by clicking the image below.
My photographs have been exhibited, published, won awards & competitions, and in 1986 some of my shots were chosen as part of a collection that was archived in a North Sydney time capsule; it will be opened in 2086 and the photographs exhibited to show what life was like a century earlier.