At age 19, I was accepted into the photography certificate course at Ultimo TAFE in Sydney (photography is not art!) where I learned how to photograph a glass bottle on 4x5” black & white film. On graduating, I turned my attention to taking pictures of two of the three things I was interested in. The ocean and surfing remained inspiring for over two decades as an editorial photographer for domestic and international magazines, and was often entwined within my personal creative work.

I transitioned into film-making in 1995 with Litmus, made with Andrew Kidman. We premiered the film on VHS in my Sydney apartment in 1996. My best friend was caught pashing my then wife (now ex-wife) in the bathroom during interval. Local bodyboard hooligans Nugget and Perce were unimpressed with all the slow motion - but nonetheless Litmus survived to become the cult surfing film of the generation.

Post Litmus, I continued shooting stills and motion pictures of surfing for a range of eclectic clients, preferring less trodden corners of the world. During this period I directed and photographed several 16mm surf movies, mostly within the biopic and travel adventure genre, and mounted several exhibitions of still photography.

In 2017 I started an independent book publishing company, and as usual was working out of my garage. In a rare smart move, I enlisted the formidable design skills of Stuart Geddes. Our first book Broken, won multiple Australian design awards. Our next book, On Bones, was released in 2018 and was a finalist in the Best Designed Independent Book category of The Australian Book Design Awards. Perhaps unsurprisingly, a book of black & white photography interspersed with extracts from a 1000 line poem about the end of the millennium hasn’t been flying off the shelves.

I’ve worked on a variety of film productions as both a camera operator and water photography specialist. Clients worthy of name-dropping include: Jane Campion, Top of the Lake 2; Sir Kenneth Branagh, Artemis Fowl; & Simon Baker, Breath.

I have collaborated several times with Richard Tognetti, artistic director of The Australian Chamber Orchestra. Over a ten-year period, we created five unique classical music concerts featuring video projections behind live orchestra. Performance venues included The Sydney Opera House, The Palais Theatre (opening the Melbourne festival), The Walt Disney Concert Hall (LA) and The Barbican. 

In 2019 I spent a year working as a video producer for an Aboriginal owned media organisation in a remote community in Australia’s Northern Territory. The Warlpiri mob were fabulous to live and work with. A film I produced with an all Warlpiri cast and crew, entirely filmed in Warlpiri language, won the Best Language and Culture Production at the 2019 First Nations Media Awards.

I am a CASA certified RPAS drone pilot and scuba diver but own neither drone nor scuba tanks.

In October 2019, five months before COVID-19 hit, I came to live in Spain with my partner and two young children. The four of us carried two suitcases between us, intending to stay for six months. At the time of writing, none of us have made it home.