The Dogs
This series is an exploration of the world of greyhound racing, shot mostly at Sandown racecourse in Melbourne's east. Knowing nothing about dog racing before beginning this project, I discovered an industry that is full of friendly people but, at the end of the day, is about little more than gambling. For both dogs and people, it seemed at times a sad world.

Gertrude Street.
Gertrude Street is a precinct of Melbourne that has traditionally been home to a large population of disadvantaged people, including many suffering from alcoholism, drug addiction, unemployment and homelessness. It has also been home to a significant indigenous Australian population. Despite recent gentrification of the area there remain soup kitchens, public housing, rooming houses and other welfare service providers. This series explores the current mix of the street, where soup kitchens exist on the same block as fashion boutiques and trendy bars

Parkour.
Parkour is a non-competetive sport of French origin that involves moving from A to B as quickly and efficiently as possible, negotiating any obstacles in the way. Practitioners of parkour (traceurs) practice running, jumping, crawling and rolling to improve their agility, speed and strength. Parkour is a unique way to experience one's environment. This series follows a Melbourne group of traceurs in their training and parkour practice.

Caribbean Gardens
Caribbean Gardens is a strange place in Melbourne’s south-eastern suburbs. On certain days it is home to a market. There are rides such as the “Jungle Cruise”, where one can look at concrete of fibreglass animals on an island. There is strange furniture. Nearby is Caribbean Rollerama. The lake is called Caribbean Lake. I have no idea why.

Trugo
Trugo is an obscure sport that is native to Melbourne. It was developed in the 1920s in the railyards of Newport, and retains a strong connection to its birthplace. The game itself is similar to croquet, with players using mallets to hit rubber discs (originally spacers from the trains) through a goal that is the width of train tracks (the field is the length of a carriage). Most trugo players nowadays are getting on in age and the sport is in danger of dying out. This series documents the players from the Footscray, Yarraville and Brunswick trugo clubs at a few matches and training sessions.

Houses

These images are taken from an ongoing series of "portraits" of houses. I believe that houses can tell us a lot about not only the houses' residents, but also about our society and culture more generally. In this series I am concentrating on houses that I find to be ugly, strange, beautiful, run-down, slightly amusing, or all of the above. We humans are a very strange lot, and this fact is illustrated well by the ways that we choose to design and/or decorate our own homes.
My hope is that, individually, these portraits will tell us something of the story of the houses' residents, while as a series they will tell a broader story about our culture by documenting fashions in architecture, decoration and gardening design. Furthermore, I am creating a record of houses that in many cases will lose their unique character as gentrification creates more homogenous neighbourhoods.