Started with a Brownie camera when I was 5, graduated to a Paxette rangefinder given to me by my grandfather. I had one and my father had one. I sold my first photo to Adidas - a blurry self-printed black and white shot of the visiting Adidas team getting a goal - when I was 14/15. Hands were shaking when I met him on the street and he looked at the print and said "how Much?" I told him $40. He said "yep, that'll do" and wrote out a cheque. Have lived in Bangkok and Tokyo, wherever I lived there was my studio. Also fell into some 'acting' wok there, playing a photojournalist who was writing a book about the North of Thailand, creating a movie called 'The Mysttical North' in which I was a Magiver type character travelling around in a jeep visiting hill tribe communities. Also lived in Melbourne, studied part time at Photography Studies College and then went out assisting. Within the day I was helping carry gear at a Maserati promo event. Assisted industrial, wedding and commercial photographers there. Also helped a reman fashion photographer there who was Helmut's assistant! "I didn't know much then" he explained to me in his heavy accent. I have a converted garage studio here in Auckland now, after previously existing in a burned out warehouse that was E N O R M O U S and would have been great with about $4000 put into it. It had two toilets but no bathroom or hot running water. Great spaces. Anyway, my current place has available light - and have been using Sue Bryce type beauty lighting - but also Bowens mono flash. Its my intention to get to New York, and on the bucket list to do a Hurley workshop sometime when Imm over there! I love shooting portraits, beauty, fashion and headshot a la with a commercial/fashion edge.