PORTRAITS
I create portraits that capture the essence of people who matter.
My search for their extraordinary inner truth seeks to discover what is often hidden from the world.
My background of leading expeditions in high risk environments - Arctic. mountain, ocean and desert - has meant working with exceptional people of vision and courage, who have taught me much about the
complex, multi-layered human response to the challenges of life.
Challenge shapes the soul, and soul shapes the portrait.
My search for their extraordinary inner truth seeks to discover what is often hidden from the world.
My background of leading expeditions in high risk environments - Arctic. mountain, ocean and desert - has meant working with exceptional people of vision and courage, who have taught me much about the
complex, multi-layered human response to the challenges of life.
Challenge shapes the soul, and soul shapes the portrait.
SEPIA
ART
I seek the unexpected nuances of light and form.
Light, in its many manifestations, surprises, entices, seduces, mystifies.
Form thrusts at us the often unbelievable to challenge our norms.
My background in commercial art and design has heightened my awareness of
what's different, of what's missing, of where unusual lights and shadows form.
Five decades of photographic practice, as recorder of remote expeditions, industrial and
construction processes, portraits and architecture, has shaped my ability to see.
Beginning in my school years, my artistic practice embracing sculpture and painting,
specialising in abstract expressionism, culminated in my first Australian exhibition, in Sydney,
officially opened by the Danish Consul General.
Eleven works, collectively titled 'Night on a Bald Mountain,
each imagined the successive musical scenes of Mussorgsky's dramatic work of the same name, interpreting the episodes of my own unlikely survival of an Arctic hurricane,
only visible as dramatically swirling light.
Light, an interruption to the expected, forces us to see anew.
Form offers the improbable, often revealed by light's absence.
Light, in its many manifestations, surprises, entices, seduces, mystifies.
Form thrusts at us the often unbelievable to challenge our norms.
My background in commercial art and design has heightened my awareness of
what's different, of what's missing, of where unusual lights and shadows form.
Five decades of photographic practice, as recorder of remote expeditions, industrial and
construction processes, portraits and architecture, has shaped my ability to see.
Beginning in my school years, my artistic practice embracing sculpture and painting,
specialising in abstract expressionism, culminated in my first Australian exhibition, in Sydney,
officially opened by the Danish Consul General.
Eleven works, collectively titled 'Night on a Bald Mountain,
each imagined the successive musical scenes of Mussorgsky's dramatic work of the same name, interpreting the episodes of my own unlikely survival of an Arctic hurricane,
only visible as dramatically swirling light.
Light, an interruption to the expected, forces us to see anew.
Form offers the improbable, often revealed by light's absence.
TIDE
PROJECT
My ongoing project is titled 'Between Heaven and Earth'. It explores the disproportionate relationship between physical size and global impact. And, in particular, how tiny humans can wreak such potentially world-ending havoc on earth - a profound imbalance that has never been adequately explained. I examine this tension visually to amplify its fundamental improbability.
B H & E
ABOUT
Shooting since 1974, covering some 15 expeditions to Desert, Ocean, Himalaya and Arctic.
Mostly Ektachrome (slides) which leave no margin for error. What you get is what you got.
There's no going back into an Arctic winter hurricane for a reshoot,
when you were lucky to get out alive the first time!
Used the brilliant Olympus OM1 system for 20 years, which always worked perfectly.
The first time I used a Nikon FM2, a deadly Arctic storm washed it into the Ocean.
Today I shoot on Nikon digital, and Mamiya RB67 medium format film.
Images have been published commercially in the UK and Australia, and used
to raise significant funds for medical research by a major London research hospital.
Principal interests are portraits, architecture, and the magic of light.
A major inspiration is Seattle based American portraitist Edward Curtis.
His lifelong dedication preserved the beauty and dignity of Native Americans.
Unique, empathic photographic techniques capture the soul of an early nation.
Reminds us what the mature human spirit really looks like.
Mostly Ektachrome (slides) which leave no margin for error. What you get is what you got.
There's no going back into an Arctic winter hurricane for a reshoot,
when you were lucky to get out alive the first time!
Used the brilliant Olympus OM1 system for 20 years, which always worked perfectly.
The first time I used a Nikon FM2, a deadly Arctic storm washed it into the Ocean.
Today I shoot on Nikon digital, and Mamiya RB67 medium format film.
Images have been published commercially in the UK and Australia, and used
to raise significant funds for medical research by a major London research hospital.
Principal interests are portraits, architecture, and the magic of light.
A major inspiration is Seattle based American portraitist Edward Curtis.
His lifelong dedication preserved the beauty and dignity of Native Americans.
Unique, empathic photographic techniques capture the soul of an early nation.
Reminds us what the mature human spirit really looks like.
