Hugo Sharp Photography

I love faces and I love photography. Happily these are two great traits to have if you want to be a Portrait Photographer. It didn't always seem such an inevitability though. Despite growing up playing in my father's darkroom there was an itch to scratch as an engineer in open cut mines in Northern Australia before the photo obsession eventually won out.

Small digital cameras were my gateway drug but an insatiable appetite for the medium and years of play led me finally to analogue film and large format cameras - specifically 8x10 cameras, and more specifically to 'Norma'! Norma is my father's 1972 Sinar brand Studio View Camera. She was enjoying a long retirement in a garden shed until I enticed her back into dutiful service with a little oil and a lot of patience.