What I do

While my young Australian parents travelled through North America in the early 1960s I was born in Vancouver, Canda in 1964. A few months later, they continued their travels, crisscrossing through the United States until we eventually settled in Southern California.
The adventure did not stop there, and my father’s wanderlust led us to Madrid (2 years), Bilbao (2 years), and Taipei, Taiwan, during my high school years.
Living in different countries and experiencing other cultures from a young age taught me to adapt to new situations quickly. It is also what I enjoy about photography: meeting and working with people from different backgrounds, all of whom have a story to tell.
Shortly after completing my studies at The New England School of Photography in Boston, MA., I traveled to Amsterdam for the first time in the mid-1980s, My fascination with the then desolate, Eastern Docklands led me to extend my stay, residing in an old warehouse with other squatters. In 1989, the Amsterdam Municipal Archives purchase eight large-format black-and-white photographs from my series ‘De Borneokade.’ In retrospect, that purchase marks when my official career as a photographer began in the Netherlands. With the birth of my son Jim in 1999, I now consider the Netherlands my home.