I took my first picture on a Nikon FM2 I bought from a pawnbroker in London and have photographed pretty much anything and everything over the 20-year journey.  

When I came home to Australia in 1993 I gave up my job as a draftsman and pursued a career in journalism and eventually landed a job in a television newsroom.

For the past two decades I’ve blended a life both in front and behind the camera and have been lucky enough to travel to some of the most beautiful and troubled parts of the world.

My cameras have allowed me to scratch an innate inquisitive itch and as a result I’ve found myself dealing with Prime Ministers one day and underworld hit-men the next. 

I’ve made pictures of fine food; luxurious interiors; landscapes; architecture; animals, and my favourite genre – people. I’m often commissioned to shoot portraits; write and shoot for magazines and film and direct short films and documentaries. 

I won’t tell you the sorts of emotions my images evoke. That’s for you to decide. But if I’ve done my job properly then hopefully, on some level, they do. 

I don’t have my FM2 any more, she’s been replaced with a Nikon D3 and a Hasselblad 503 cxi – the camera I used to shoot all of my Kill City exhibition images. 

When I shoot video I love the cinematic quality of the Canon 5D MKII and sometimes I’ll use the Sony EX3 for corporate work. 

I use Broncolor, Minicom 80s for studio lights or just my Nikon SB-600 speedlight.

I live with my wife and son in Melbourne.