With each image I aim to capture and magnify the raw emotional tone of the subject matter. I like to capture moments of nostalgia, romanticism, and authenticity.

Other things I like to do include:
- Embarrassing myself
- Convincing myself that the movie I’m watching is enjoyable because it’s a classic.
- Harvesting my bok choy
- Finding an owner for 16 bok choy’s
- They’re perfect for a stir-fry
- Happy to do pick-up or meet you somewhere in the middle.
- Pursuing a rodent through Rundle Mall.

There are approximately four things I have ever felt competitive about in my life: musical chairs, nostril-flaring competitions, photography, and Call of Duty Mobile. One of those things gave me nerve damage in both my thumbs and I won’t be telling you which.

Since a child I’ve had a persistent interest in all artistic mediums- beginning with illustration. Mum (a photographer) used to charm the butcher into handing over a roll of his big butcher paper sheets, which rarely made it to our front door before they were raptured. I would sit by the big window in the lounge, rip off a good metre or so of paper, and pin the four edges with my led pencil tin, red Texta box, and two shoes. I would obsessively draw the same things: birds, houses, Darth Vader etc; a habit I now see in my 3-year-old nephew, who exclusively draws bees, ice-cream trucks and American emergency vehicles.

Illustration and soccer consumed much of my early years. That was until the iPad Mini struck, and I got my start in photography. I would take photos on the iPad Mini and edit them into oblivion with the mobile-editing app VSCO. It wasn’t long before I was feverishly feeding each and every photo to my hungry Instagram fan base (15 to 20 of my school friends and direct family). Around this time I began making videos too- parkour mostly. Those videos are long gone now so don’t even bother trying to find them… Please.  

At some point I took an interest in digital art and graphic design. These are two surprisingly lucrative skills to possess as each one of your friends get’s the idea to launch their own t-shirt brand. That experimentation with graphic design was really where my photographic eye matured, becoming more attentive to contrast, balance, visual heirarchy, and composition.

Mum upgraded her camera gear around 2018 and generously passed down her old Nikon D-something-a-rather. I found if I just switched all the dials to automatic and ignored the scary buttons I could produce some pretty neat frames with that thing.

Fast-foward to 2022, and I’m walking out of a stranger’s house with a second-hand Fujifilm XT4; I had decided I was going to be serious about photography as a future. I did the obvious thing and wiped my entire personal Instagram of all those pesky (deeply irreplaceable) high-school memories. I downloaded Adobe Lightroom, and began uploading photos of my adventures around the Adelaide Hills. This work largely consisted of nature, cars, and portrait photography.

My start as a professional wedding photographer began in 2023 when mum first employed me as her second-shooter for a wedding at Bremer Farm. I remember I spent most of that wedding shooting pictures of children through the bubbles they were blowing. That was a good day. I’ve since done numerous weddings, now making sure to keenly follow the main narrative of a wedding; focusing on moments and details that tell the story best. I’ll still take a picture of a kid blowing bubbles every chance I get though.