ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The biggest undertaker in Johannesburg, South Africa, escorted me around Sophiatown, where the former Apartheid government forcibly moved inner-city black people as the whites wanted their land. He introduced me to his secretary and I met and photographed her beautiful little daughter and named her "Miss Africa" hoping she would grow up to a better life in new South Africa, governed by its majority inhabitants.

AUTHOR
I have been a professional journalist all my working life and sometimes my press articles have been illustrated by my photos. I have been a reporter and sub-editor on daily and Sunday newspapers in Sydney (Australia) and London (England) and for 30 years published and edited management newsletters circulated to the food, retail and media industries in Australia.

My Monochrome Awards entries were photographed on a trip through 30 countries in Asia, North, Central and South America and Africa. Since then I have traveled through 29 other countries, making a total of 59. I particularly enjoy photographing ordinary people in under-developed countries and asking them about their lives.

I am married to Margaret, have two children, Trish and Jacki, and live in an inner suburb of Sydney, Australia.

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