"in the late 1980’s when I was first starting out as a photographer"

It's all glamour - Putting away some old transparencies into plastic containers, so they could be safely put away in storage when I came across a series of images that I did in the late 1980’s when I was first starting out as a photographer. This image above and one from below came from a non nude glamour calendar that I was shooting when I was just 20 years old.

"some kind individual decided to take the originals rather than returning them"

The actual images shown here were scanned from duplicate transparencies, since it appears that some kind individual decided to take the originals rather than returning them. Perhaps the biggest single advantage for photographers now in shooting digital is that we are able to keep original copies of all our work.

"you had to fight with clients and art directors to avoid losing all your images constantly"

Photographers who have only ever worked with digital have no concept of what it used to be like when you had to fight with clients and art directors to avoid losing all your images constantly. This was a real nightmare because you naturally wanted to stay on good terms with the people you worked with, but it also placed you in a really difficult position when you needed access to your own images and clients or art directors had decided they didn’t want to give them back for whatever reason

"a museum of some kind in the outback"

This image was shot on a medium format Bronica SQA with a standard 80mm lens and since it was the 80’s I believe I put on one of those Cokin softar filters that were so popular at the time. The location was actually a museum of some kind in the outback showing how the historical sheep shearing stations used to look, so it was a ready made location in that sense and all I had to do was set up the lighting, which was nothing more than a small silver umbrella fitted to an Elinchrom light on a stand that was pointed down towards the model. It all looks rather dated now but you have to remember this was the 1980’s and I think I can look back with a degree of nostalgia in remembering what it was like to travel 12,000 miles to the other side of the world on an early job at such a young age.

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