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I first got into photography in 1978 at the age of 21 after borrowing a camera from a friend. With some basic instruction and a few rolls of B&W film I embarked on a week long solo hike in the Barrington Tops during winter. That was it for me, and after experimenting for a few years I decided that I would save as much money as I could so I could spend a full year at The Australian Centre for Photography in Paddington.
The year was 1983 and I saved enough to study many courses, both practical and theoretical, on a full time basis. Tamara Winikopf was the director at the time. A year later I began work as a freelance photographer primarily focused on travel and geographical work.
In 1987 I took a trip to Europe and the USA where I linked up with my cousin (also a photographer) and many of his friends who were all part of that West Coast School of fine art landscape in California. They arranged a field trip to Yosemite and another to the Big Sur Coast where we discussed things like “the landscape as music” and other philosophical ideas. Some of these guys worked directly with people like Ansel Adams and Edward Weston, and in fact, one fellow named Morely Baer is today considered a contemporary of those photographers and knew both of them well. I learned more about photography and fine art printing during that 3 weeks in California than I had in all my time previously spent with the medium.
As the publishing houses began to utilise more in-house photographers I moved into a more advertising based atmosphere doing ad’s for things like lingerie, jewellery, architecture etc. Over the years my work was published in many major magazines like Harpers Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Belle, House and Garden etc.
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