The Australian Beach

Bondi Beach Australia

I love the beach and living so close to Bondi and Bronte it has become our backyard, my family just like thousands of other Australian families spend our weekends soaking up the sun and swimming in the surf.
It's where I fell in love with photography. Taking my point and shoot down to the beach a couple of times a week with my small daughter and my friends Anna and Kate and their children I started to photograph them growing up. One day I turned the camera onto the other beach goers and swiftly became fascinated with how the beach meant so many things to so many different types of people. I think the following quote sums it u for me.

‘On Bondi beach you can spot just about every Australian beach cliché: bronzed Aussie lifesavers pulling pale British tourists from the surf, topless beach bunnies baking themselves senseless under the blazing sun, men in singlets sipping Victoria Bitter beer and children nursing rapidly disintegrating ice-creams

For decades Bondi’s great arc of sand has played a crucial part in Sydney’s self-image and the Australian national psyche; the beach is a sandy synonym for the laid-back, sun-loving Aussie way of life and a picture perfect encapsulation of the country’s naturally beautiful coastline.’

Cathy Lanigan, Lonely Planet East Coast Australia, (New South Wales: Lonely Planet Guides, 2006)