Today’s exciting interview is with the very talented and experienced photographer Skeet Booth. With over 20 years photographing for the advertising and design industry, Skeet’s had a real mixture of creative projects for the industry’s top agencies and clients.

Skeet started out as a photographer in Adelaide in the late 80’s and he’s definitely been around a bit! He worked and lived in Melbourne for a few years, and then Sydney where he photographed for some of the top magazines.

So then it was Brisbane’s turn to keep Skeet for a few years! He’s been here for 6 years now with his family.

He’s had briefs of all kinds – from “here’s a loose brief, let’s see what you can do with it” – to more craft type exercises, for example product shots. A couple of the projects featured here are also for BAD Club! No matter what type of project, Skeet does his research and plans each shoot before picking up the camera.

With all of these years across the different capital cities, Skeet has a whole list of funny stories. And along with all of his photography talents, Skeet’s just a nice family guy!! See more of Skeet’s photographs at full screen on his website.

How have you got to where you are today? I was always pretty determined to be creating things in the visual realm when I was growing up, I was pretty sure I’d be drawing or painting or something, photography seemed too technical to me.

It seemed to attract people who were more interested in machines than pictures and I was the other way round. I did a week’s work experience with a photographer when I was in my last year at school and he offered me a job. After learning the basics photography seemed a lot less technical than I’d thought, or maybe my own mind was capable of more technical thinking than I’d thought, and fell in love with it.

In a few words, describe yourself… All photographers are perfectionists, good ones anyway, but the areas we spend time perfecting vary widely. I’m more obsessed with getting the point across than decoration.

What are you spending your time on at the moment? I’m spending time on my work and my family.

Do you have a ritual for getting into the creative mindset? Or a creative process? The only ritual I have for getting into the creative mindset is persistence. I’ve just got to keep thinking until I’m focussed enough on the task at hand and the ideas start to flow… touch wood!

What or who inspires you? I’m inspired by many things, most commonly I’m inspired by people being themselves, especially when just being themselves means they have to be brave.

What are you most proud of? I’m most proud of my family, but since we’re talking about work, I’m most proud of the fact that I’ve never taken the easy way out.

When you were a child, what did you want to be when you grew up? I always thought I’d be creating things with drawing or painting, and then I discovered photography!