John has been active in amateur photography in Australia for nearly 30 years. Over that time, he has exhibited with considerable success at both national and international level, winning numerous awards for monochrome prints and, more recently, colour prints and audio-visual sequences. In 1985 he co-founded “Printworks”, an international print exhibitors group which has established itself as one of Australia’s most successful such groups.Since 1980, John has judged regularly at club, state, national and international level, including Adelaide, Sydney, VIGEX  and Maitland Internationals and the Adelaide International AV Festival. In 2007, he accepted an invitation to be one of the judges for the 12th China International, conducted in Lishui, China, and was a jury member for the Royal Photographic Society’s AV International at Cirencester in 2014.For more than 20 years, John has been involved in photographic administration, serving several terms on the Management Committee of the South Australian Photographic Federation, serving as Judging Coordinator for the Federation from 1999 to 2011, and serving two-year terms as Junior Vice-President, Senior Vice-President,  President and Immediate Past-President of the Australian Photographic Society. He served as Chair of the organising committee for the 2004  and 2009 APS National Conventions (APSCON) and the organising committee for the 2011, 2013 and 2015 Adelaide International AV Festivals. He recently retired from the position of  Executive Director, Honours for the APS.
.In 2000, John was awarded a Fellowship of the Australian Photographic Society, and in 2003, Excellence of the International Federation of Photographic Art (EFIAP). In 2006, he was awarded Hon. AFB (Artista Fotografico Brasiliero) by the Brazilian Federation of Photography and Cinema and in 2009 Hon. FAPS by the APS. In 2013, he was awarded AV-FAPS by APS and ESFIAP by FIAP. He has given presentations at photographic conventions both in Australia and overseas, and has a particular interest in landscape, architectural and still life photography, and audio-visual productions.
His work has appeared in a number of books and magazines and is in public and private collections in several countries.