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My background is still life photography, but I deem myself an urban photographer for my personal work; most pictures in PHOTOART are street shots from Sydney - I just roam the city, incessantly shooting with my Canon EOS 1Ds camera. Then I manipulate the pictures on my Apple MacBook Pro with Adobe PhotoShop. I abandoned film in early 1998 and have been a digital photographer ever since, both for my PHOTOART work and professionally.
Here you may also download a fact-sheet about the NO WAR incident involving the Opera House - check out my NO WAR - YES PEACE series. Furthermore, I also dabble in writing, don't miss my Pacifist Manifesto or indeed my en.light.en.ment book ... for more on my history in photography, go to my Let's get technical page.
As an ad shooter - for 45 years - I was always in control, but also constrained. Now the chains are off. When I shoot my PHOTOART I'm free. I take chances; I love that process: Not to have to worry about the outcome while I shoot … whereas in my pro career the concept, the layout were all that counted.
Mission Statement
My quest as an artist is to document my
environment and to comment on life ... this is what I do: I read, watch and
listen ... then think, then write. I like to think things through
thoroughly and with my book en.light.en.ment I wish to inspire readers to think
about things as they never thought about them before.
en.light.en.ment ... the book, a new beginning, in the making since 1987
In 1987 I set off on a spiritual journey. The insights gained culminated in a 'panharmonicon' of 150 pages of essays about words and numbers; life and death; spirituality and philosophy; war and peace; reality, truth, truthiness, consciousness, delusion, God, service, happiness, love, duty, meditation, mind, passion, religion, Zen & enlightenment ... that sort of thing.
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