Portraits of a Craftsman - How Curiosity inspires my Photography

I love taking long walks and drives in my pursuit of photography - often my best work comes from making photographs from unplanned journeys. This day I captured portraits of a blacksmith craftsman.

SUBURBIA

Suburbia project explores the everyday spaces that many call home. The more I explore suburbia the more fascinating I find it to be and its anything but boring and mundane and full of contradictions of what one may think suburbia actually is.

Fragility

This project explores human vulnerability in the wake of the COVID-19 virus outbreak. Our individual anxieties and stresses are universal, experienced the world over. The mantra of cities being vibrant places for humans is now questionable in the wake of this pandemic. The fragility is clearly and unambiguously there for all to see. This photo project explores the fragilities and vulnerabilities of our existence in these times of uncertainty that juxtapose emptiness and abandonment as being evocative of our times

Launceston: Death of a City explores the demise of the central business district of Launceston in Tasmania. What were once vibrant busy streets are eerily quite and vacant

The former Burnie Paper Mill (Associated Pulp and Paper Mills Ltd) located in Burnie was one of the main employers of region. The mill started operations in the late 1930s and closed down in 2010. It was home to a wealth of wonderful Industrial buildings from the 1930s-1960s. Driving into Burnie the Burnie Paper Mill was a mighty impressive sight to behold, an industrial powerhouse, reminding one that you were now entering the industrial capital of the North-West. This project is close to my heart and I made many trips to document the Burnie Paper Mill before it was demolished. This project is ongoing in the sense that I have a large library of photographs that require editing As I process these images I will be adding them to this project gallery.

10 Murray Street State Government Offices in Hobart, Tasmania, commenced construction in 1966 and were completed in 1969. 10 Murray Street was demolished in 2018. The 10 Murray Street project has been an immense undertaking logistically, emotionally and photographically. I have amassed a large library of photographs I have still to process, documenting the exterior and interior spaces for over the past decade. Join me on my journey through a Modernist landmark.

Southern Midlands Tasmania project explores the relationship between the built and rural landscape of the Southern Midlands and the region. This includes how the European settlers brought with them ideals and values that is evident in the colonial architecture as well as influencing the rural landscape of the Southern Midlands. This project aims to explore how history can shape how a place is both imagined and realised, juxtaposed with contemporary reality. Through these concepts I aim to explore how the towns and landscapes in and around the Southern Midlands and region have evolved and changed over time.

Melbourne // Upwards & Outwards is an ongoing project exploring the transformation of change to Melbourne's residential skyline. Melbourne has a population of 4 million people, with predictions it could reach 10 million in the very near future. The project explores Melbourne residential architecture from the mid 20th Century through to the contemporary period. The landscape of Melbourne continues to be dramatically transformed

Insignificant Moments explores concepts surrounding the built environment we engage with on a daily basis; loneliness; isolation; and exploring the notion that insignificant moments in our daily lives are acts that provide the soul of the built environment. Through the austere and lonely there is beauty in these insignificant moments. As an architecture photographer I immerse myself in the built environment on regular basis in order to explore and find inspiration for my projects. I find inspiration from the architecture, streets, and fleeting moments in a rushed world. Insignificant Moments provides me with the opportunity to capture the fragility of human presence in amongst the built environment. Being surrounded by people within the built environment, it struck me that I could could go days without talking to another human being. These feelings are emphasised in this project through the lone figures overshadowed by the built environment

Documenting the rich diversity of Melbourne’s 20th Century Modernist architecture from 1930-1980. The project explores styles of architecture and design including Art Deco, Mid Century Modern and Brutalism

Join me in my quest to find and document the most beautiful and interesting staircases. I predominately focus on staircases from the 20th Century Modernist period (1930s - 1980s)

Townsville is often referred to as “the capital of North Queensland” I grew up here and have lived back here in different times of my life. In the 1990s the city had a population of around 100,000. 30 years later it's nearly 200,000. This project documents places and spaces I know and how Townsville is constantly changing

Launceston Woolsheds and Silos project explores the former industrial precinct located in the suburb of Invermay, Launceston before, during and after demolition. Over 10 years of documentation, this is a project close to my heart.

“Utopia/Eutopia” explores the built environment and how the passage of time can alter perceptions and sense of place. The built environment engenders different emotional responses and reactions in everybody; the polarities of aesthetic/tasteless, beautiful/ugly, creative/soulless, history and the tradition/obsolete and archaic, up-to date and progressive/old fashioned and backward, etc. I want to explore these conflicting emotions elicited by the built environment through the medium of photography.The contemporary notion of being “sustainable” is juxtaposed with a hunger for the latest technologies. When they are constructed, new developments (housing,commercial, civic spaces) promise many positive attributes (conveniences, jobs,shelter). However, while with the passing of time their original intentions are often forgotten or obscured, the built environment unambiguously stands for everyone to see and judge, and cannot be hidden out of sight and out of mind. The quick turnaround in what’s valued within the contemporary context and what comes to be despised in the future will be explored within this project. My photography for this project is largely void of any human presence. By doing so it allows the subject to be shown in its raw form, not lost in the hype and/or dreams of those for whom it is designed or sold to. The photographic exploration of the built environment within these parameters provides connection to everyday spaces, and in doing so provides individuals with deeper emotional connections to, and sense of, place, in all their many guises

Wondered what Launceston would look like if you could walk above the street?…