Some of you already know, but for those that don’t, I have always been fascinated with graphic patterns. My first ever photographic assignment was spent photographing graphic shapes and lines in my surroundings. At this stage I knew nothing about aperture or shutter speed. I knew to try and read from the light meter in my camera, that was all.

Well needless to say it didn’t stop me. I started to find patterns, patterns I had walked past and looked at almost every single week. Suddenly my surroundings appeared so much more intriguing. What I didn’t realise, is that it was training my artistic eye…

It is so funny how old “habits die hard”. Now looking back, I can see the influences in my current work.

I was on a shoot at Patrick terminals earlier this year and some thing really caught my eye. There I was, on top of the tallest crane in the Fremantle Port, and I looked down to the trucks and shipping containers below. On the ground they were enormous, well certainly for a little person like me. The trucks were hauling past at amazing rates. Picking up, carrying and delivering the shipping containers at a rate of a container every minute.

Now looking down onto the trucks and containers, everything seemed so small. Lego memories flashed over me. I could imagine myself picking the containers up and stacking them myself, only to have my big brother come along and steal them for his own lego landscape…

It is so nice to look back over your past work and compare it to the current work you are producing. No matter what industry you are in, I think we quickly forget how far we come and what we achieved.  With this in mind, I will always remember how I will always be learning that’s the best part…

Namaste,

A Bientôt

xxx