Photography

Photography found me before filmmaking did. I had a darkroom from the age of fifteen, fascinated by form, colour and light — and by the particular magic of an image emerging from a blank sheet of paper in the amber glow of a safelight.

When I began directing films and television after graduating from the inaugural intake of the Australian Film and Television School, I set the stills camera down. Picking it up in my spare time felt too much like work.

When I closed my production company in 2011, photography returned — and with it a different eye. Thirty years of constructing images for other people’s stories had sharpened my need to explore my own.

My work since has been exhibited four times, winning the President’s Prize at Sydney’s prestigious Head On Photography Festival, and receiving significant international recognition — most recently with Watermarks, last exhibited at the Musée des Confluences in Lyon.