How did you first get into photography?
I’ve always liked to show people things, and I found photography the best way to do that. ‘Check this out, mum. Check this out, dad.’ As a young surfer, I was captivated by the look of the ocean and the coast from out in the water, and in my early teens I played around with disposable cameras. I don’t think I had a lot of influences. I just went out to see what I wanted to see and tried to capture it in photos.
A few years later, on a road trip to Tasmania, I bought an SLR film camera at a pawn shop and I taught myself to use it through the film era and into the digital age. Going back 20 years, I was working fulltime as