Stories from the intersection
of people and place.

On the ground in remote Papua New Guinea

The weight of an old envelope marked 'Early RAAF' had sat in my drawer for years before I finally understood its pull. Inside were my grandfather's wartime photographs from Papua New Guinea - not of battles or military life, but peaceful portraits of villagers he'd met in 1943. Fred Thies had documented these communities with his Box Brownie while stationed there, capturing a world that seemed both timeless and impossibly distant. In 2018, 75 years after his lens first found these faces, I returned to the same villages with a question: what endures when everything is supposed to have changed? Village of Paradise became that answer—a visual conversation between past and present, between his simple camera and our 50kg of equipment, between the PNG he knew and the one that exists today.

On the ground in remote Papua New Guinea

The weight of an old envelope marked 'Early RAAF' had sat in my drawer for years before I finally understood its pull. Inside were my grandfather's wartime photographs from Papua New Guinea - not of battles or military life, but peaceful portraits of villagers he'd met in 1943. Fred Thies had documented these communities with his Box Brownie while stationed there, capturing a world that seemed both timeless and impossibly distant. In 2018, 75 years after his lens first found these faces, I returned to the same villages with a question: what endures when everything is supposed to have changed? Village of Paradise became that answer—a visual conversation between past and present, between his simple camera and our 50kg of equipment, between the PNG he knew and the one that exists today.

Documenting the River Guardians

The fyke net emerged from the Mary River at dawn, water streaming through its mesh funnel, and for a moment we held our breath. Inside was a creature that predates the dinosaurs—a Queensland lungfish unchanged for 100 million years. Working alongside the Burnett Mary Regional Group, we weren't just capturing footage but documenting the delicate dance between cutting-edge science and ancient knowledge. This is the story of how environmental DNA sampling meets Traditional Owner wisdom, where conservation happens one carefully placed net at a time, and where saving a river means understanding it through both microscopes and songlines.

Documenting the River Guardians

The fyke net emerged from the Mary River at dawn, water streaming through its mesh funnel, and for a moment we held our breath. Inside was a creature that predates the dinosaurs—a Queensland lungfish unchanged for 100 million years. Working alongside the Burnett Mary Regional Group, we weren't just capturing footage but documenting the delicate dance between cutting-edge science and ancient knowledge. This is the story of how environmental DNA sampling meets Traditional Owner wisdom, where conservation happens one carefully placed net at a time, and where saving a river means understanding it through both microscopes and songlines.

From the archive

On the ground in remote Papua New Guinea

On the ground in remote Papua New Guinea

24.03.25

24.03.25

On the ground in remote Papua New Guinea

24.03.25

On the ground in remote Papua New Guinea

On the ground in remote Papua New Guinea

24.03.25

24.03.25

Documenting the River Guardians

Documenting the River Guardians

02.06.25

02.06.25

Documenting the River Guardians

02.06.25

Documenting the River Guardians

Documenting the River Guardians

02.06.25

02.06.25