Photography

Close Up with Nature

To connect with nature is a form of healing. Peace, beauty and harmony. I explored various worlds from different perspectives capturing and exploring various animals in their environments.

My Left Foot

In 2018 a 445 grams, 90 day old, Australian flesh-footed Shearwater (Puffinus Carneipes) fledgling was found with 276 pieces of plastic in its stomach weighing at 64.1 grams. This accounts for 14.4% of its total body mass. A full leg is the human equivalent to this statistic. I used my left foot, constructing a life sized leg out of found plastic pollution at Gurock beach. Items include plastic fishing wire, bottles, toys and reminance of a (pecked at) plastic bag.

Freeport

Highlighting the need for a balance in retail provision, I have utilised my skills as a photographer to develop an effective visual language that explores the results of inappropriately targeting development on one sector. I look at:

· the folly of over enthusiastically placing too much focus on out-of-town retail development to cope with the greed of humans and their continuous growth in consumption;

· the direct results of over-provision in this sector; and

· the consequent impact of such an imbalanced approach on vital town centre provision.

I hope that I can bring greater awareness to this issue and encourage a fundamental rethink in planning processes to ensure that a vibrant and balanced provision can be delivered for the future..

Plastic Pollution

The horror of plastic is an ever growing monster consuming our world. Our animals and their environments have experienced terrible deaths due to the discard of plastics.

Experiencing our plastic problem as a horror film, I reenacted horrific scenes of animals being trapped and choked to death from plastic.