002 | Light, silence and solitude | My love for kangaroo island

I don’t go to Kangaroo Island just to shoot. I go to reset. To breathe. To let silence settle in before I start framing it again. Some places give you more than a photo—they give you clarity. That’s what KI does for me.

Cape Borda. An amazing spot, the most challenging of roads to get there.

I am a pretty high strung individual. I find it hard to relax. This place takes all my worries away. It’s like my worries and stresses in life, just sit at Cape Jervis and bid farewell to me as I board the ferry and head across the Backstairs Passage.

I’ve shot jetties and beaches all over South Australia, but there’s a kind of rawness on KI that hits differently. The wind feels older. The coastline more sculpted. The light slower. And when I’m there, I’m not just chasing a shot—I’m reconnecting with why I shoot in the first place.

KI is more than a location for me—it’s a rhythm. It’s where the light behaves the way I need it to. It’s where I shoot like I used to: for the feeling, not the outcome. And it’s where I’ll keep returning, with or without a camera.