Andrew Jacona

I live in Sydney, Australia with my wife Paveena and our two children Artie and Poppy. From a young age I remember setting up a little “street gallery” with my brother where I would draw pictures of mountains and places and we would sell them to people passing by for 10 or 20 cents. Now days my love is for travelling, photographing and meeting people. Photography is the means by which to do this and is not an end in itself. It’s the experiences that it opens up to you that’s of value and those come naturally out of the energy you put into it, this is easy when you love doing what you do. 

"Something that is beautiful gives more than it takes" I don't know where this perception originally came from but it was shared by a wonderful teacher and I love it because it doesn't limit beauty to the physical realm. It was shared in the context of talking about how do you make something beautiful last or how can you preserve the beauty that exists in the present for the future and the answer I think is that you can't. Beauty needs to be re-created and that takes giving and growth which requires effort and stepping into the unknown.

Andrew Jacona

Technical

I shoot mostly film and scan with both a Fuji Frontier SP3000 and Imacon 646. I use a variety of film cameras in different medium formats.