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Everything from the ground up

It’s clear from your photography and drone work that you have a deep understanding of the wilds of northern Australia, particularly the Kimberley region. What’s the background to that?

I grew up in the 1980s in Wyndham, the northernmost town in Western Australia. Both my parents worked at the meatworks there when it was one of the largest in the Southern Hemisphere. Until it closed in 1985, Wyndham had markets, parades, dancing balls, horse races, a speedway… It was a bustling town. We continued living there until 1990 in what had been a meatworks house while my dad worked for a fuel distribution company. My friends and I had great fun playing in, on, and around the derelict meatworks after school, in the freezer rooms, the kitchen, using ladders to get on the rooves.

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