I learned photography as an apprentice in a traditional studio in Salzburg, focussing on portraiture, press photography, architecture, theatre and concerts, and everything else that Salzburg had to offer to the photographic lens at the time. This was followed by independent work as a commercial photographer for the next 20 years, which was all analogue at the time. Like every other photographer, the world of photography turned digital for me around the year 2000, and over the next five years I studied digital imaging and printing with Les Walkling. Digital photography was perfect medium for the commercial world. However, I never gave up analogue photography. It was an opportunity to separate my commercial work from my fine art photography, which was film photography and the making of prints. In 2009, I went to the University of Tasmania and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Art in 2013. My particular interests became the intersection of industry, dwelling, and landscape here in Tasmania. I had several exhibitions around Tasmania and Melbourne and a major solo show in 2018 at the Queen Victorian Museum in Launceston in 2018, Tasmania.

I started 16mm film in a course at the International Summer Academy in Salzburg (Film as sensitive body) with Melissa Dullius and Gustavo Jahn and in August 2016. I was hooked on film straight away. I bought a 16mm camera and started experimenting. As soon I was back in Tasmania, I expanded my darkroom to be able to do 8/16mm film processing and editing. In the same year I opened TopSpace Studio on the top floor of a monumental building in the CBD of Hobart, to create an art project space for independent photography and experimental film.

Education

• Salzburger Summer Academy, 16mm experimental Film, August 2016
• Bachelor of Fine Art (College of Fine Art UTAS Hobart)
  Double major in Photography and Electronic Media,  2009 - 2013
  
• Diploma in Electronic Publishing and Graphic Design, Sept. 1992 to June 1993
  
• Photographer Apprenticeship, Fotostudio Tautscher in Salzburg, Austria, 1982-1985

Exhibitions 

• Devonport Regional Gallery, A Sense of Place, Group Exhibition, 29 February - 31 May 2020
  
• QVMAG Launceston, LANDMARKS, Solo Exhibition, 14 April - 7 October 2018
  
• LARQ Gallery Queenstown, SOLASTALGIA , Solo Exhibition,  27 June - 1 August 2015
  
• Devonport Regional Gallery, ReViewing , Group Exhibition, 13 March - 10 May 2015 
  
• Henry Jones Art Hotel, Exquisite, Group Exhibition, 5 March - 2 February 2015
  
• Burnie Regional Gallery, INTERZONE , Solo Exhibition, Photography, 31 August - 5 March 2015
  
• The Barn and Schoolhouse Gallery Hobart, On Beauty and Decay and other Matters Tasmania Group Exhibition, 04 Sept. - 27 April 2009
• Victorian Artist Society, Faces of Melbourne Cato Gallery,
  Melbourne Portraits and BW urban Landscape, November 2009
  

Publications

• LANDMARKS Exhibition Catalogue with Essays by Prof. Jeff Malpas (UTAS)
  
• The Unconformity commissioned Feature Image of the Unconformity for the Queenstown ART Festival, TASMANIA, https:// theunconformity.com.au
  
• SOLASTALGIA Exhibition Catalogue with Essays by Raymond Arnold, Pete Hay and Dr Ingo Farin
  
• INTERZONE Exhibition Catalogue 
  
• Island Magazine 131 Photography and Essay: "Thoughts of a Traveler",  2013
  
• The PHOTO PAPER: BW SPIDER Award 'Tree Shaddow" electronic publication 2011
  

Workshops given

• Ongoing Workshops in Photography at TopSpace Studio, Hobart: 
  The Analogue Project, Film Developing and Printing, Pinhole Photography, The Portrait
• Cityscapes Gallery Fotohof, Salzburg Austria November 2010
  
• The Photographic Portrait Patterson Studios, Melbourne, with Jaqueline Mitelman February 2003
  

Presentations

• Conversations on Landmarks with Prof. Jeff Malpas and Raymond Arnold,  21 July 2018
  
• The Future of the Museum A Conversation between History, Art and Science with Eleanor Calella - Archeologist, University of Manchester and Cameron Slatyer - Branch Manager of Life and Geoscience, Australian Museum Research Institute,  19 May 2018
  
• Reflections on the Tasmanian Landscape
  Humanities in the House, Presentation, Tasmanian Parliament with Dr. Ingo Farin,
  26 August 2015
• Imaging Tasmania, Terraleah, Tasmania Conference Paper on Imaging Nature with Dr. Ingo Farin