“Photography is my method for defining the confusing world that rushes constantly towards me. It is my defensive attempt to reduce our daily chaos to a set of understandable images.
Through my camera I try to clarify and edit the unnumbered flow of moments that constantly parades and invades my senses. My urge to photograph is activated by an almost biological instinct for self preservation from disorder.
The camera is a mechanical apparatus that extends my natural ability and desire for meaningful organisation. I need it to survive”

Arther Tress.

We look at the world and see what we have learned to believe is there. We have been conditioned to expect, but as photographers we must learn to relax our beliefs.

Proof sheet from my life project on Maori.

“Pick a theme and work it to exhaustion. The subject must be somthing you truly love of truly hate”

Dorothea Lange.

My wife and son, Fiordland.

“While photographs may not lie, liars may photograph”

Lewis Hine.

Fashion shoot for students at the Waikato School of Hair.

“To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place, Ive found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them”

Elliott Erwitt.

Octopus unloaded from a fishing boat in Nuku’alofa, Tonga.