About

My name is Matt, I’m 28 years old and live in Australia. I was born in England and moved to Oz at the age of 7.

I became interested in photography at a young age. I was always intrigued by my fathers Chinon SLR film camera, I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I would play around with it whenever I could, trying to figure out how it all worked. Eventually I bought film for it and shot my first roll. The results were questionable, but I was hooked!

Years later I was able to afford my first digital SLR, a Pentax K100D with the standard 18-55mm kit lens. Digital photography opened up a whole new level of creativity, I loved being able to manipulate and enhance photo’s to my liking. From Pentax I moved to Nikon, a D40x to a D90 to my current D300s. I’ve now been shooting with Nikons for around 5 years have collected a whole bag of Nikon glass, more of which can be seen here in my current kit page.

Then came travel. I first backpacked around Europe for 6 months, this gave me a taste of the world and what travel was all about. I quickly realised I wanted more, the travel bug had bitten. Next up was Central and South America and the Caribbean. The greatest 10 months of my life, I was blown away by the South American continent and everything it has to offer. Then things got a little crazy and I started planning something bigger, which leads me to where I currently am; bicycle touring from London to Singapore.

I quickly learnt that photography and travel go hand in hand. I love exploring new places with my camera in hand, capturing the landscapes, architecture and different cultures. Mixing travel and photography has quickly become my favourite hobby. If I had the choice I would do this for the rest of my life, but unfortunately I don’t think that is feasible.

Explosive Curiosity, what’s that all about then? I can’t for the life of me remember how I came up with it. The name started out as a tag to pin on my work during college in 2001 and from there it just kind of stuck. A few years later it became my registered Australian business name and I have been using it ever since. For now Explosive Curiosity is a home for my photography as I travel the world, a place to showcase the things I have captured.

That’s about all for now I think. If you’re done reading this boring stuff about me, go check out some more interesting things, like photo’s! Click here to view the latest.