Biography
After exploring the possibilities of the photographic image alongside a career in executive management roles in corporate environments, I decided to take a ‘Gap Year’ in my career and focus solely on image creation. These were the early tentative steps in my development as a photographic artist.
While I continue to extend my technical and creative skills in photography through formal studies and research as an emerging practicing photographic artist & curator, I also work across educational and volunteer initiatives developing programs to assist young adults to develop a passion for making pictures and realising their potential through the visual arts.
I hold a Bachelor of Adult Education (BAE), an Masters of Business Administration (MBA), and a Master of Documentary Photography from Sydney University, Australia. I and am currently completing a Masters in Art History and a Masters in Art & Curatorship while developing a contemporary photographic curatorial and educational practice
As a photographic artist, I aspire to create extended bodies of work that explore a diverse range of genres through documentary photography. This includes localised contemporary social issues, the exploration of objects and immediate space as symbols and archetypes that reinforce social collective memory, and the micro interaction of social constructs and objects as artifacts that contribute to formation of identity and place.
My academic research is founded in an interest in the exploitation of the link between photographic technology and death, and in particular how imagery in digital social media reinforces frameworks of social control and transforms the subject into a museum object through the eidos of the photograph
