Tell us a bit about yourself and how you came to know Toowoomba…

I was actually born in Toowoomba, but I’ve lived just outside of Gatton my whole life. Last year was when I really started to meet everyone from the Toowoomba art scene. I’m currently studying a Bachelor of Photography at Griffith (South Bank), but I always visit Toowoomba on weekends.

The perfect day to photograph?

Winter afternoons are my favourite, just after the sun has gone down; when it’s a little overcast and slightly windy. I love the colours, the dark pastels… Are dark pastels a thing?

How do you feel about the notion that “photographers see the whole world through a lens”?

I agree and disagree. Once you learn about photography, its impossible to look at the world the same way again, you begin to critique light and framing and possibilities everywhere. But at the same time, we don’t have our eyes shoved into a tiny frame of the world. What I’ve learned is to step back and look at what’s not in the frame. Everything affects what’s inside the frame.

What is one artwork – photo or otherwise – that has inspired you above all others?

That’s a really tough question. Any photo by Sally Mann, her process is fascinating and her images are exceptionally exquisite. My favourite is probably ‘At Warm Springs’ from her ‘Immediate Family’ series. It almost looks like a painting, everything is so circular, the lighting on each strand of hair is perfect. I hear only silence when I look at the photo. I think of childhood; putting your head underwater, everything goes quiet; and for a few moments, everything is peaceful.

Where would you like to see your photos one day?

The aesthetic of Frankie really appeals to me, so any magazine with that kind of feel. I don’t really see myself heading down the advertising direction, but I’d love to be on set of at least one of those massive, overdramatised fashion shoots where they bring in exotic animals and throw paint on the lady who’s wearing a massive dress, and she’s on six foot stilts… you get the idea.