Collaborations past and present, with dancers and choreographers, include Katherine Minor (2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025), Damani Campbell Williams (2024), Gretchen Steimle (2023), Loughlan Prior (2020, 2021, 2022), Laura Saxon-Jones (2021), Jessie McCall (2017, 2018), Jared Hemopo (2018), Emma Delabarca (2017, 2018) and Kayla Paige (2015).
My work has been exhibited at the Auckland Festival of Photography 2018, Exposure and St James Theatre, Wellington, the Aotea and Bruce Mason Centres, Auckland, the cover feature in DANZ magazine Summer Issue 2018 and Bannockburn Artists Exhibition 2018 -2025.
When not photographing the stars of the stage I am shooting the stars of the sky with astro-photography.
My artistic exploration also includes universal questions of space, the search for meaning and themes of ‘self similarity’ (a self-similar object is exactly or approximately similar to a part of itself i.e. the whole has the same shape as one or more of the parts).
Two significant works in this vein include 'The Blue Dot' and 'Mikro Kosmos', which explored themes of our place in the universe, scale and themes of ‘self-similarity’.
I've specialised in dance and theatre photography for over 20 years.
Having worked at Sadlers Wells Theatre, London, St James Theatre and Opera House, Wellington, NZ, Tempo Dance Festival, NZ, Erupt Arts Festival, Taupo, NZ and the Royal New Zealand Ballet. I've had the privilege of photographing some of the worlds greatest dancers and companies including the Royal Ballet, Pina Bausch’s Tans Theatr Wuppertal, Nederlands Dans Theater, the Royal New Zealand Ballet, the New Zealand Dance Company, Atamira Dance Company, Footnote Dance NZ and many established and emerging New Zealand dance artists. I created the hero dance images for Tempo Dance Festival 2012, 2013, 2014 and Erupt Arts Festival 2014.
I've photographed from an early age, learning from my father, John Walmsley, who was a distinguished fashion and portrait photographer in London and owner of the photographic studio Bassano Vandyk Elliott & Fry through the 1950s – 1970s. Photography is in the family.
