I was born in Papua New Guinea in 1974 and after living in Canberra we settled on a bush block on the Clarence River in northern NSW.

After school I finished a graphic design course at uni and spent the next six years working full time as a designer/photographer.

At the same time I picked up freelance design/photography work and had my first solo photography exhibition in 1999. Since then I have had five more solo exhibitions and showed work in six group exhibitions.

Over the past 10 years I have seen a fair chunk of Australia, Thailand, England, Ireland, and Europe. When travelling I am always seeing and creating photographic images, constantly inspired by the natural world and it’s amazing landscapes and trees, shapes and forms.

At the start of 2008 I planned an awaited return to Tasmania. A year or so before I had travelled Tassie and seen for myself the extent of ancient forest destruction, rare wild places plundered for instant cash, and had always wanted to come back.

For the past year here I have been volunteering my skills in design and photography for the forests.

In this time I have learnt much about politics, the law and corruption, ecology and climbing trees and at the same time coming to the complete realisation that consuming less and living the simple life is much more fulfilling.

I have also learnt about campaigning on different levels in town and organised or worked at awareness and fundraising events for the southern forests with grassroots environmental group Still Wild Still Threatened.

The rest of my time is spent in the old growth forests of Tasmania physically trying to stop these areas from being destroyed.

I came back for the forests, that is my sole purpose for being here. Not much remains of these irreplaceable ecosystems, Tasmania’s unsustainable logging practices must be changed now or it will be too late.