I’ve been a photographer for around 12 years now and I describe my style as 'reportage’. My photos are full of the unexpected and the delightful. I love capturing ethereal light and happy moments. It’s definitely the simple things in life I get most pleasure from. I love to start the day with a coffee and a walk in the park with my boyfriend Dion, Architect extraordinaire @ Studio106 Architect… and our Jack Russell Eddie.
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| Hanging out in the pup tent with my little sister Kate and Jemima Puddle Duck |
I read this quote by photographer Jacques Henri Lartique many years ago, and to me it sums up the spirit I aim to capture in my photos...
“Toby and me. Both of us like to take walks over the white sand beach... toward the sun, or to sit in the park, faces turned upwards to catch the warm rays. We take endless walks through the countryside and look at the fish in the streams; and in the city we watch the women strolling along the avenues.
Toby is like me: he belongs to no one. If he has a master, it is God. Maybe Toby’s God is the sun. Maybe, after all, I am his master... partly. But he is free. Nature belongs as much to him as it does to me. Toby is more independent even than I; he has no race, no religion, no roots. Ignored by humans, and without pride, he is a symbol of total freedom and independence. Toby does not obey me - because I do not give him orders. We share, he and I. We share joy.... and suffering; we share warmth and cold.
I have tried to acquire as much freedom as possible, to become self liberated. I will probably never know if I have succeeded. All I know is this: here I am at what seems to be the end of a lifetime, yet, at the same time, I feel it is only the beginning. There is still so much to do... to enjoy... to give. There are still so many photographs to take, so many faces to preserve forever!
Look at my dog Toby: doesn’t he appear to have endless possibilities in store for him? A whole life in front of him?
Jacques Henri Lartique
Toby is like me: he belongs to no one. If he has a master, it is God. Maybe Toby’s God is the sun. Maybe, after all, I am his master... partly. But he is free. Nature belongs as much to him as it does to me. Toby is more independent even than I; he has no race, no religion, no roots. Ignored by humans, and without pride, he is a symbol of total freedom and independence. Toby does not obey me - because I do not give him orders. We share, he and I. We share joy.... and suffering; we share warmth and cold.
I have tried to acquire as much freedom as possible, to become self liberated. I will probably never know if I have succeeded. All I know is this: here I am at what seems to be the end of a lifetime, yet, at the same time, I feel it is only the beginning. There is still so much to do... to enjoy... to give. There are still so many photographs to take, so many faces to preserve forever!
Look at my dog Toby: doesn’t he appear to have endless possibilities in store for him? A whole life in front of him?
Jacques Henri Lartique
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