Life

He began shooting professionally at the age of 18 (beginning at The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper) and his career has taken him around the globe, working for the world's foremost international picture agencies (Getty Images

Getty Images

Getty Images, Inc. is a stock photo agency, based in Seattle, Washington, USA. It is a supplier of stock images for business and consumers with an archive of 80 million still images and illustrations and more than 50,000 hours of stock film footage...

, Bloomberg, Rueters and AP).

In 2004, he returned to Australia, after working on the world's Formula One

Formula One

Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

 circuit as a photographer for English based photo agency, LAT Photo.
He now lives and works in Sydney

Sydney

Sydney is the most populous city in Australia and the state capital of New South Wales. Sydney is located on Australia's south-east coast of the Tasman Sea. As of June 2010, the greater metropolitan area had an approximate population of 4.6 million people...

, Australia and is directly commissioned by leading corporation

Corporation

A corporation is created under the laws of a state as a separate legal entity that has privileges and liabilities that are distinct from those of its members. There are many different forms of corporations, most of which are used to conduct business. Early corporations were established by charter...

s for projects across: high end business, portraiture

Portrait photography

Portrait photography or portraiture is the capture by means of photography of the likeness of a person or a small group of people , in which the face and expression is predominant. The objective is to display the likeness, personality, and even the mood of the subject...

, travel, food, sport and editorial features.

He is a former overall individual winner of The Australian Press Photographer of the Year Award, and in 2008 he was named as the highly commended runner up winner in Australia's richest Photographic/ Art Portraiture Award - The Moran Portraiture Prize. In 2010 he was listed as a top ten finalist in the Sony World Photography Competition (professional sports category).

Between 2004 - 2009 he worked as a contracted photographer in Australia for Bloomberg News (the world's largest financial news wire service). This role saw him photograph Australia's foremost corporations and their people on a daily basis. He resigned from this position in 2009.

For 14 years, he traveled the globe shooting international sport for Australia's leading daily newspapers (The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age

The Age

The Age is a daily broadsheet newspaper, which has been published in Melbourne, Australia since 1854. Owned and published by Fairfax Media, The Age primarily serves Victoria, but is also available for purchase in Tasmania, the Australian Capital Territory and border regions of South Australia and...

) and then world picture agencies (Getty Images, Reuters

Reuters

Reuters is a news agency headquartered in New York City. Until 2008 the Reuters news agency formed part of a British independent company, Reuters Group plc, which was also a provider of financial market data...

 and Associated Press

Associated Press

The Associated Press is an American news agency. The AP is a cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations in the United States, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists...

), covering such events as: The Olympic Games

Olympic Games

The Olympic Games is a major international event featuring summer and winter sports, in which thousands of athletes participate in a variety of competitions. The Olympic Games have come to be regarded as the world’s foremost sports competition where more than 200 nations participate...

, Commonwealth Games

Commonwealth Games

The Commonwealth Games is an international, multi-sport event involving athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930 and takes place every four years....

, Rugby World Cup

Rugby World Cup

The Rugby World Cup is an international rugby union competition organised by the International Rugby Board and held every four years since 1987....

, UK Premiership League soccer, Presidents Cup

Presidents Cup

The Presidents Cup is a series of men's golf matches between a team representing the United States and an International Team representing the rest of the world less Europe. Europe competes against the U.S. in a similar but considerably older event, the Ryder Cup. The Presidents Cup is held biennially...

 Golf and Davis Cup

Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation and is contested between teams of players from competing countries in a knock-out format. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Britain and the United States. By...

 Tennis.
Between the years of 1998-2001 he also toured as Official Photographer for The Australian Cricket Team.
2003 saw him move to the world's Formula One circuit, working for F1's pre-eminent photo agencies, 'LAT', and 'Sutton Motorsport Images' based from London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

.

Since returning to Australia in 2004, he has continued to establish distinct portfolios for leading companies, across a wide range of projects.

His charity work saw him receive the award as '2010 Volunteer of the Year' by The Steve Waugh Foundation - the charity established by former Australian Test Cricket captain Steve Waugh - which aids youths with rare diseases.

In 2011, he was awarded the contract as The Official Photographer to document photographically the most significant changes to The Sydney Opera House site since it was first built (expected between 2011 and 2014).

In May, 2011 he won the Open Section First Prize in The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize - for an image taken on World Rare Disease Day.

Photographic awards

• 1st Place overall - The Moran Contemporary Photographic Prize- 2011
• 1st Place overall - Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year
  Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year
  The Nikon-Walkley Australian Press Photographer of the Year Award recognises newsworthiness, impact, technical superiority, creativity and originality in news photography. It was first awarded in 1969 as a separate award, but in 2000 merged with the Walkley Awards to create the current prize...
  
  - 1995
• 1st Place overall - Australasia - The Commonwealth Photographic Awards (judged in London - 2002)
• 1st Place overall - AFL Photographer of the Year (twice) - 1995 and 1997
• 1st Place overall - Australian Tennis Photographer of the Year
• 1st Place overall - Agfa World Photographer of the Month - 2002
• 16 Category wins - Nikon Walkley Australian Press Photography Awards - for News, Sport, Portrait and Feature sections
• 2008 - Highly Commended runner up - The Moran Portraiture Prize (Australia's richest contemporary art prize)
• 2008 - Highly Commended runner up - Shoot The Chef Photographic Competition
• 2010 - Top Ten Finalist - Sony World Photography Competition

External links

• Photographer's website