12/12/2025
For a long time, I never shared my photography publicly. It was wrapped up in my fear of being seen as ‘flaky’, an untrue narrative that I couldn’t possibly offer two creative things at once.
But we are all multi-passionate in our own unique ways. It is our life experiences and joys that lead us down the garden path of curiosity.
The truth is, my photography arrived in my life at the same time as my art. In 2010, it was experiencing heartbreak at having returned home from a much-loved holiday to San Francisco and realising my happy snaps didn’t do it justice.
The light I’d seen, the beauty I’d experienced, the faces of people I’d met. Nothing I had captured reflected what I’d felt or witnessed. I had nothing to put on my wall to remember her by.
So I began learning manual photography (and I began drawing cities of the places I left my heart). It was a pivotal moment in my life. I practiced learning how to capture the vision in my mind when I saw golden moments. Everyday and ordinary moments.And everything in between. They’re all special to me.
Over the years I became the go-to photographer in every office I worked, capturing completed landscape architecture projects, evocative site photos and plant photos for reports.
This is one of the original special ones - a moment to capture Lady Cilento Children’s Hospital for Conrad Gargett’s entry into the AILA awards (it won!), featured in magazine and long featured on the website.
The practice of photography is like our beautiful Australian landscapes, always ready to welcome you home.
