Tony Grant

I am self-taught. I have had over 30 years of photographic experience firstly as a Lab Technician and Printer, then a press photographer, and now a freelance photographer.

It was 1983 when I first peered through the lens of an SLR. I loved the way you could selectively focus on an object and isolate it from its surroundings. I fell in love with photography in that very first moment.

In 1986, employed as a Lab Technician and Printer in a photolab. I had access to a full colour lab as well as my own B&W darkroom. During this period, I devoured and inhaled photography, teaching myself the art of taking and producing pictures. By 1988 I was working as a press photographer. In the 1990s I went freelance. I am still learning the art.

I have been taking photographs professionally since 1986. I am very familiar with both digital and analogue photography, in camera, on the computer and in the darkroom.

I photograph a wide range of subjects including: People – portraits, documentary, news/media imagery. Events – performance, music, festivals, seminars, workshops. Landscapes – nature/wilderness, urban, rural. Artworks – paintings/prints, sculptures, fabrics, ceramics. Macro – insects, jewellery, any small objects. I can photograph anything really. The light sources I use and are proficient with include – Ambient/natural, Flash/soft box, LEDs, Fluorescent and Incandescent bulb, Candles.

I am able to offer workshops/fieldtrips on many aspects of photography.