NZPhotographer Issue 35, September 2020

BRAIN FOOD
F5.6, 1/125s, ISO320, 85mm
ASIDE FROM PORTRAITS, WHICH GENRES DO
YOU MOST ENJOY SHOOTING?
When I’m not shooting portraits, I love landscapes and
street. Street is good for stress. I was in a very serious car
crash in late 2018 and my photography has acted as
therapy whilst dealing with PTSD. I find the solitude of
street photography helps me get those stress levels down.
TELL US ABOUT YOUR EXPERIENCE SO FAR WITH
EXCIO…
I tend to be an “all in” sort of person so I uploaded lots
of images to Excio in a space of two or three weeks.
I really like being able to crop images for different
device sizes. The support and input from the team has
been amazing and I find it exciting to be using an app
from a Kiwi company. The images look great and you
can tell that the Excio team are passionate about
what they are doing. The experience is definitely
aimed at making it work for photographs rather than
the images being an after-thought.
WHAT ELSE SHOULD WE KNOW ABOUT YOU?
I am a trainee judge for PSNZ. I recently started
judging competitions for camera clubs which has
been a really exciting challenge. I feel my own
work has improved considerably by spending time
assessing the work of others. I particularly enjoy trying
to interpret the photographer’s thought process
and intentions. I’m a big believer in making images
over just taking them. Intention is very important to
me, so its great practice for this and you get to give
something back to the NZ photographic community
at the same time.
WHAT’S NEXT FOR YOU?
I gained my PSNZ licentiate status a couple of years
back and am now working on both an A set and a
fellowship set for submission over the next few years.
I enjoy long scale projects and have a few ongoing
projects that evolve as I work on them. One is a set of
Fresnel images; another is American muscle cars and
another is Film Noir portraits. Not everyone I shoot is a
good candidate for every style so I am building these
catalogues as I go. I hope to make a coffee table
book of American muscle cars and many more coffee
books like the one I made of Anita too.
WHERE CAN WE FIND YOU ONLINE?
www.facebook.com/nztonez
www.instagram.com/nztonez
albums.excio.io/profile/nztonez
www.tonez.co.nz
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