Photography by Mike Terry

“I’m very grateful to spend a career thus far behind a camera. It’s brought me to some special places. In Berlin where I met my wife there was so much ‘cool’, yet it was a constant chase to find something that seemed to be shrinking the moment it was named. I found it hard to find the room to push against this and make something new, even if only for myself. Our trips back here to my wife’s hometown excited me as I could recognise space to make what I was chasing back in Europe.

I’m still pretty new here so let’s hope the hunch has something to it, seems to.

I love photography and filmmaking primarily because of the people I get to meet and their worlds I get to visit. I have always been curious about agriculture and grazing, my mother’s family were ranchers and active in rodeo in Southern Utah, but growing up in Europe I was never exposed to that world. Photography has been my license and opportunity to trespass into similar rural worlds and small communities to understand another dimension of the relationship and identity created through place.”

Mike is a photographer and filmmaker, who tries to put his trousers on two legs at a time in order to be more efficient. Although he has probably just burned the extra eighteen seconds he’s built up over the past few years, by explaining the method.

An American, who grew up in Europe, Mike found himself living in Australia after falling in love with a woman from Uralla while living in Berlin. Mike and his beautiful family now call Armidale in the New England region home.

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