About Me

Kia ora koutou

Thanks so much for taking the time to visit my site and explore my work. I hope you’ve enjoyed some of the images and perhaps found a moment or two that made you stop and look twice.

I’m a photographer with a passion for documentary and reportage-style work — capturing real, unrepeatable moments as they happen. Most of my work is in dynamic, fast-moving settings like sport and live music, where the challenge (and the joy) lies in anticipating and preserving the split-second details that tell the bigger story. I’ve been fortunate to work with Sport NZ, High Performance Sport NZ, Northern Mystics, Chamber Music New Zealand, and the Auckland Philharmonia, among others.

Before moving to Aotearoa New Zealand, I was a music teacher for many years, which gave me a deep empathy for people and a love for hearing their stories. I bring that same sensitivity into my photography — whether I’m courtside at a netball game, backstage at a concert, or on location for something entirely different.

Since graduating from the Photography Institute in 2020 with a diploma in Professional Photography, I’ve worked on a wide range of projects, from documenting elite sport to capturing New Zealand’s unique birdlife, and creating imagery for organisations such as New Zealand Premium Foods, the Department of Conservation, and the Rangitoto Island Historic Conservation Trust.

While sport and music are my mainstay, I’m always open to new challenges and bespoke commissions. If you’ve got a story to tell, whether big, small, fast-paced, or quietly unfolding, I’d love to help you bring it to life.

Hei konā,

Tom