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"Photography for me is not looking, it's feeling. If you can't feel what you're looking at, then you're never going to get others to feel anything when looking at your pictures." - Don McCullin

Glen discovered photography at fifteen and from that moment he has used it as his vehicle to understanding and appreciating the world around him.

After studying at Wellington Polytechnic for three years Glen spent another four working as a press photographer, but feeling the urge to travel, his camera and inquisitive eye took him on a four-year trip around the world. In that time he visited more than 40 countries.

During his travels he captured thousands of images - from a drunken Cambodian policeman opening fire on him after catching on film a botched bribery attempt, through to a breath taking stormy sunset over a Bolivian salt lake in the Andes, that marked the end of the last millennium.

Glen returned to New Zealand four years ago. He is now a photography lecturer at Massey University. He spends seven months a year teaching and uses the remainder to continue his photographic travel adventures. His most recent projects have taken him to Cambodia, Namibia and finally back to one of his oldest passions, the New Zealand landscape.

"Photography is a dramatic and dynamic medium, and whether working with landmine victims in Cambodia or capturing the New Zealand landscape, photography is not just a job, but a passion.

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking". -Brooks Anderson