Light in my life

When I was young I liked being by myself, inside my own head. I would sit in a secluded place with a pile of books and magazines. My favourites were National Geographic and photographic catalogues. I loved the shots that had caught a moment in time that would never happen again: the expression on a face depicting anguish or happiness, or a close up of nature where the light had created extreme beauty and exquisite shapes.

I have always been obsessed by sunlight.

Sunrise and sunset are the best times of the day, when I am taking photographs, I try to always capture natural light, I especially like it when there isn’t much of it.

As an art director I was privileged to work with some of the best photographers in Sydney back in the 1980s. Watching them work was an education for me - how they used their lights and their light meters, and how, by following my layouts, they created just what I wanted. But sometimes they didn’t get it and I started to realise that it would be better to do my own photography.

I studied photography as part of my Graphic Design course. By the time I was running my own advertising studio, I was using my photography skills as part of the service. The business expanded to publishing magazines and so did the range of photography I was doing: from product shots for advertising, to every kind of editorial photograph that was necessary for a lifestyle magazine.

As the photographer and creative director of my own publication, CAPITAL Magazine, I have been responsible for the photography in every issue for the last seven years. I can honestly say each and every photograph I have taken is special to me.

Because of photography, there is light in my life.

Exhibitions
National Portrait Gallery - I love my Capital
The Singapore High Commission - My impression of Singapore

Old Parliament House - Capital Assets, Who's Who in Canberra

Influences
My Mother who taught me how to see
My Father for his work ethic
All those great photographers I worked with in Sydney
New York City for its humanity                                                                             
Light