I’m a documentary photographer. I use photography to tell real-life stories. I focus on environmental, agricultural, travel and sometimes cultural issues. I capture events, people, nature and places as they truly are, with honesty and context. The beautiful and the not-so-beautiful.
I don’t do weddings or babies in bows in studios. I’m not that kind of photographer.
I bought my first single lens reflex camera in Singapore in 1978 and have spent the nearly five decades since documenting the world with an unflinching yet deeply empathetic eye. Based in Halls Head, Western Australia, I work at the intersection of documentary photography, science writing, and agricultural journalism — a combination that gives my images both narrative depth and analytical rigour.
My first major assignment set the tone for everything that followed. In the early 1980s, as a United States Peace Corps Volunteer, I documented the national parks and the biodiversity of Costa Rica, bringing environmental issues into focus at a time when the language of ecological crisis had barely entered public consciousness. It was the beginning of a lifelong practice of bearing witness to the natural world and the human communities bound to it.
Holding a Master’s degree in agricultural journalism from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I bring specialist knowledge to subjects that allows me to photograph beyond the surface. My work reaches into the heart of food systems, rural livelihoods, and the environmental pressures reshaping how the world feeds itself. Food security is not an abstraction in my photographs — it is written in the faces of the people who grow what the rest of us eat.
At the centre of my practice is a commitment to portraying farmers with the dignity, beauty, and joy they embody but are so rarely afforded in mainstream visual media. Where other photographers have leaned into narratives of hardship and crisis, I seek out the pride of a good harvest, the skill embedded in generations of agricultural knowledge, and the quiet resilience of communities sustaining themselves on their own terms.
I’m not an old-school photographer. I keep up with the times. I have the latest, top-of-the-line Nikon mirrorless cameras and gear. And when I’m not behind the camera I am in front of the computer processing photos in Adobe Lightroom and using a touch of AI.
I’m available for assignments anywhere in the world. Sing out if you like my style.
I sell stock photography but I really don’t bother to add new images. But you can view my online portfolios with the below stock agencies.