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Creative works spanning video, photography, graphic art

12/04/2026

Big monkeys. Little monkeys. Diva monkeys. Curious monkeys.
Wherever I went in India, there they were, usually up to no good. Ever-expressive and watchful, they made great subjects.
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06/04/2026

UDAIPUR, RAJASTHAN | Some memorable faces & spaces from a week in the city of lakes. Street photography historically hasn’t been my thing but India, and Udaipur specifically changed that. The city is a visual feast and I was constantly stopped in my tracks by its richness.

03/05/2025

Burning to Heal

Caught a pretty epic sight during a recent multi-day hike through Victoria’s High Country.

Controlled (or prescribed) burns are intentionally lit fires used to reduce dry vegetation and promote biodiversity. By clearing out dense underbrush, they lower the risk and intensity of future wildfires and encourage native species to return and thrive.

When my mate Koen and I started our hike in the morning, we could make out a single line of smoke from where the burn started. By sunset, it was a full fledged fire, making for some beautiful visuals from the summit of Mount Feathertop.

It was my first time seeing a controlled burn in action, and it gave me a sense of awe at our capacity to guide the fate of landscapes. Aboriginal people have been practicing this kind of land care for tens of thousands of years in the form of Cultural (or Cool) Burning, and it’s good to see these methods still playing a role in an increasingly wildfire-prone world.

I wonder how common this sight will become in the coming years, as we reckon with a hotter planet and lean more into the wisdom of traditional land management?

In the end, it’s the people that know the land who’ll endure whatever it throws at us.

22/04/2025

Another day, another gorgeous park. Except this one has a pretty unique comeback story. After being exploited for nearly a century, Darebin Parklands has been returned to nature in a big way, thanks to the effort of volunteers that give a damn❗️

Its future (and the future of places like it) depends on continual community care; on people stepping up as custodians of the land. Indigenous people understand this concept well, but Westerners routinely overlook it. Could this place be an exception❓

Making these vids helps me better appreciate the role we play in conserving ecosystems, especially ones we’ve done extensive damage to. Walking through the park, taking in the currawong song, I’m shown why this work matters, and the immense task that lies ahead. I’m here for it - are you?

20/03/2025

This is Werribee Gorge 🪨

An ancient pocket of bushland holding it down against the sprawl.

I spent a day amongst the gorge’s steep cliffs and winding river, shaking off the cobwebs of the week and tuning into the stillness that comes with time in wild spaces.

Eternally grateful that I get to live & play in Australia’s incredible landscapes—and determined to tell their stories the best way I know how 📹🗣️

08/03/2025

640 acres of natural bushland, 5 km’s from the CBD, basically my backyard—this is Yarra Bend Park.

23/01/2025

Crested pigeon AKA server of looks

Only in Australia can you find pigeons with mohawks. They’re a common sight here but as a relative newcomer I’m still enamored by them. This fella seemed interested in me too; if it weren’t for the car that shooed them away I think we would’ve been mates 🤝

20/01/2025

An Australian magpie through the thicket

Came across this looker during a walk through my local park. We ended up checking each other out for a good 10 minutes before I kept on my way. Magpies can remember faces for many years, so hopefully I left a good impression. They use this ability to recall whether someone is naughty or nice, and consequently a risk to themselves and their nests.

Notorious for swoop attacks during the breeding season, it pays to be on a magpie’s good side :)

07/12/2024

Five dawns merged into One

Photographed across five days on miami beach. Shoutout to jet lag for the assist in making sure I was up to appreciate one of nature’s great gifts.

11/11/2024

Crashed a Rainbow Lorikeet hangout today - got a lot of weird looks but I think we came away as friends🧍🏽‍♂️🤝🦜

02/10/2024

On moving 📦🏃‍♂️📦

Moving is a container of chaos and harmony and exhaustion and exuberance.

Moving house, moving countries, moving through life — it confronts all the same.

I’m here for it. Are u?

We move to find ourselves again (and again).

We upgrade, we downsize, sometimes we capsize—

but at the end of the day we still dwell in caves.

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Whichever cave you find yourself in atm I hope joy comes readily & abundantly ! Life can drag but it can also rip. I mean look at those birds. ‘Straya’s got some FUNKY ones

07/07/2024

How often do you pause to behold the enormous spectacle of nature that surrounds us, enables us, is us?

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When my friend Elise propositioned me to display work in her lovely new gallery space , I’d already secretly wished for it. In fact, I’d picked out the images months earlier, where they’ve sat in Lightroom along with other collections waiting to taste sunlight.

How life-affirming it is when seeds sprout 🌱

And what a pleasure to water them with the help of a good friend & curator!

These particular seeds come from a reverent place where nature reigns supreme and we are obliged to play by its rules. It is from this place that I increasingly operate as an artist + human.

Full artist statement on final slides.

And Melbourne friends, if you find yourself strolling down Johnston St … look out for the grooviest window on the block !!!

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