Thank you for joining us for tea, what beverage are you actually enjoying during this interview?

Chai tea with honey, made on milk

Thank you for joining us for tea, what beverage are you actually enjoying during this interview?

Chai tea with honey, made on milk

1. Why photography?

Photography to me is a way of accurately capturing one tiny moment in time. It can be a relatively forgettable moment made beautiful – photography gives every moment meaning.

2. Half Frame? Full Frame? Square Format? Etc? Which is your favorite format to shoot in and why?

Square! Mainly because that’s the format my darling holga eats. I’ve shot with 35mm (which I must admit is a lot cheaper to develop) but there is something romantic about the square format 120.

3. Five things that are always in your camera bag:

My red Holga GCFN. Red scissors (the colour coordinating is purely coincidence, yet highly pleasing!). Earth tape (purely because the yellow and green excites me). My sets of filters, I have four colour filters, four soft edge filters, four kaleidoscope filters, and my close up filters. And extra film!

4. Time, space and reality are no longer relevant. You have one hour to photograph the person you always dreamt of. Who is it and why?

I would probably choose my Grandma who passed away in 2008. Just so we could hang out for another hour, and I’d have a hour of photos to look back on.

5. If you had to choose just one image to represent your work which would you choose, and why?

It would be a Holga photo I took of the Ferris wheel in my city.  I took it on long exposure with a blue soft filter, so it’s quite unearthly.

6. What was your best happy accident?

A whole roll of film once turned out with a tiny star burnt into the corner. No idea where it came from or how but it looked awesome! Almost like a signature.

7. With or without a camera, what is your perfect day?

Sunshine + picnic rug + grass + portable music + camera + sketchbook + paint + scruffy dog + snacks + friends = perfect day.

8. Now’s your chance to be among the pantheon of quotable genius like Ben Franklin, Winston Churchill, and Karl Pilkington, give us your iconic quote/phrase.

Really, art is just frozen music.

9. What is the biggest lesson you have learned so far that has impacted your photography?

Don’t unroll a roll of film unless its in TOTAL ABSOLUTE DARKNESS even when the piece of foam that sits under the film is stuck inside the film!

10. If your life were a movie, what song would play when the credits started to roll?

The Cure’s Friday I’m In Love

“I don’t care if Monday’s blue, Tuesday’s grey and Wednesday too, Thursday – I don’t care about you, it’s Friday and I’m in love!”

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