ABOUT

I’m a photographer, director and DOP, working across commercial campaigns for the last 25 years.

What keeps me interested is the whole process. The idea, the conversation, the people, the pressure, the craft, and the work that hopefully sticks.

I like getting under the skin of a brief. Talking it through, pulling it apart, pushing it visually, and finding an edge or a tone that makes it feel specific.

I’ve tried hard not to develop a fixed style. For me, it’s about finding the right tone and flavour for each job, rather than bringing the same approach to everything.

I move between stills and film, large technical productions, performance-driven work, studio and location, as well as smaller projects. Frankly, I just love working.

I started out in Austria with a small studio in Innsbruck, shooting mostly tourism and advertising. I moved to Australia in my mid-twenties and, to be honest, I’ve never really done anything other than taking pictures and directing. Aside from being a husband, a father and a sailor.

Arriving with limited English taught me to listen. Some might disagree. But that stayed with me. It shaped the way I work, trying to understand what a project is really about before putting a camera on it.

I’ve always been curious about new technologies and embraced them along the way. But more than ever, in a world flooded with images, I believe good work needs to feel real. It needs weight, honesty and authenticity. Something that makes you stop and look.

At the end of the day, I believe clients are buying taste. The ability to make the right decisions, know what matters and recognise when something feels right.

I also co-founded Flint, a production company that became a big part of my working life. After ten years, we gifted the business over to our employees. I’m still very much involved in photography and film, just with a little more freedom to focus on the work I love.