On location in Namibia sand dunes

I was born in Melbourne Australia in 1955. In 1972 at the age of 17 I discovered my passion for photography while taking it as an elective in art. It was an overwhelmingly enjoyable experience to discover this medium through which I could express myself artistically.

My photography teacher was a great inspiration and I knew without a doubt that I had found my calling. I carried a camera everywhere, capturing the lives of my friends around me. The camera allowed me to enter fully into life, rather than abstract myself from it. The camera became, in a sense, an extension of my body and gave me a way to relate to others with a purpose. It was truly a very magical time.

Since those early days, photography has always been my principle passion and work and a tremendous force in my life. I certainly feel that I have some kind of deep karmic connection to it. For example, I clearly remember at the age of 4 coming across some rolls of B&W 35mm negatives of women’s high-heal shoes of all things, in the back shed of a house we had just moved into. These negatives seemed strangely familiar to me and I was completely fascinated by them. It seems now looking back that I had a prior connection to this medium.

After high school I went on to study photography for a short period at the Prahan Institute of Technology in Melbourne, before assisting professionals and turning professional myself.

From 1973 to 1984 I worked as a Freelance photographer, shooting a lot of Travel, Arial, Commercial and stock photography working out of Byron Bay in Northern NSW. In 1985 I moved to Sydney and set up and operated a commercial studio until 1989, working for many major Corporations, Public Relations companies, Pharmaceuticals, construction companies and Audio Visual houses,

In 1985, co-incident with my studio years, I came across the Spiritual teachings of the Adept Adi Da Samraj. This was not just an intellectual discovery but rather one where I found myself literally experiencing Adi Da’s spiritually transmitted force that filled and pervaded my entire being as I read and heard his teaching arguments relative to spiritual matters and truth. Adi Da is not just a religious scholar; he is a spiritual Adept of the highest degree.

By 1989, having grown utterly weary of the commercial photography scene and becoming increasingly interested in Spirituality, I closed my studio in Sydney Australia and moved to the Fiji Islands in the South Pacific, to live and practice under Adi Da’s direct guidance. I continued to work as a photographer, but this time as a full time employee for the institution of Adidam. I remained in Fiji for ten years, which were the greatest and most valuable years of my life to date.

During those years I learned a totally different approach to photography. And it was Adi Da’s extraordinary sacred transcendental image work and consideration that inspired me to take up photography purely as an art form.

From 1999 to the present day, I have been fundamentally working on my own interests in photography as primarily a form of art with the humane form.

My Subject matter and approach has changed over the years, however, as a fundamental theme and interest, photographing women and capturing the feeling of their archetypal beauty, fullness and vulnerability has been, I would say, my personal passion and theme throughout my life. Thus you will find many of my images that incorporate the female form in one way or another.