A New Zealand fur seal relaxes on the rocks at Antipodes Island. “I had no idea that there was so much more down there; you think of it as just ocean,” he says. “Fundamentally though, it really is. I remember mucking around on Google Maps and – cripes – was I zooming in to pick up any landmass.” But in October last year, the 34-year-old won the 2020
New Zealand Geographic Photographer of the Year. With the prize came a trip to the Chatham Islands and subantarctics with Heritage Expeditions, a wildlife and Southern Ocean tour. He took along his mum, Wellington Oriental rug and carpet restorer Anna Williams (Rob Suisted, the 2019 winner of the award, was there too).