About

I picked up a Canon 350D in 2005 and never really put it down. No photography school, no degree in it. Just a camera, a passport, and 45 countries worth of figuring it out as I went.

Somewhere along the way an elephant photo I took on a beat-up Nikon D90 at the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania ended up on the cover of National Geographic Traveller. They found me through a Google image search, which still makes me laugh. That shot came out of a 3.5-month overland trip through 12 African countries, from South Africa up through Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, and Rwanda. The trip finished at Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, tracking mountain gorillas through the jungle. One of the best days of my life.

I've shot across Japan, Iceland, Jordan, Turkey, and Egypt, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, New Zealand, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, country Victoria, and a lot of places in between. Wildlife, street, travel, editorial. Wherever the light's good and something's happening.

I don't do heavy editing. I don't composite or manipulate. There's a line between photography and digital art and I stay on the photography side of it. The moment matters more than the technical perfection. Connection over composition.

All photography on this site is available for licensing and as prints.

Based in Melbourne, Australia. I also run DJB Photography School where I've taught over 1,500 people how to actually use their cameras.