I was born in Ashburton, New Zealand, and educated as a political economist at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand. I worked in Wellington and Auckland as an economist before leaving to live in Melbourne, Australia.
In Melbourne I worked on the trams for several years a conductor, whilst I studied photography at the Photographic Studies College in City Rd, Southbank, Melbourne, Victoria.
I shifted to Adelaide, South Australia had a studio and darkroom in Bowden and photographed Bowden in the 1980s prior to its gentrification. (Its website is here). I studied visual art and philosophy at the Flinders University of South Australia, eventually gaining a PhD in philosophy. After working as an academic I became a policy/political advisor in Canberra for several years.I currently live in Victor Harbor with Suzanne and with two standard poodles called Maleko and Kayla.
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Harmful algae bloom and stormwater runoff
I haven’t posted here since Kalani’s death from eating parts of a dead fish contaminated with brevetoxins from Karenia cristata. Though the daily poodlewalks with Maya have continued I have more or less stayed away from walking along the co...
bushland studies: the indistinct (“In’ei”)
This companion post to the previous bushland studies one is concerned with exploring the pre-modern Japanese aesthetic category of the indistinct (In’ei) in an Australian context. “In’ei” refers to the state of dimness or shadow created when direct lig...
a photowalk in the Waitpinga bushland
This is a construction of my daily morning poodlewalk in the local Waitpinga bushland with Maya, in South Australia’s windy outhern Fleurieu Peninsula. Maya is our standard poodle and is just over a year old. The bushland, which is in Ngarrindjer...
meditative walking + photography
My still photography, which is made whilst walking with the standard poodles in the local bushland, has been changing. It has changed from photography as a way of objectifying and distancing us from the world towards an understanding that the practic...
the photographic + walking with Maya
An update on making photos whilst walking with Maya. She is now between 5-6 months old and is quite comfortable walking for an hour or so with me along the coastal rocks on the southern Fleurieu Peninsula. As we are on the cusp of winter in South Austr...
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