Gary Sauer-Thompson is an Adelaide based photographer documenting the contemporary urbanscape and landscape. Favoring a blend of spontaneity and photographic deliberation Gary primarily utilizes an array of traditional, film-based equipment to explore the topographics of his urban and seaside neighbourhood.
Sauer-Thompson originally trained as an economist, graduating with a M.Com from the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand in 1969. He was inspired to think of doing photography after seeing the work produced by artist and teacher John Cato in the late 1970s when Gary was studying photography at the Photographic Studies College in Melbourne, Victoria.
In 1990, he graduated with a PhD [philosophy] from the Flinders University of South Australia then worked in Canberra. He returned to photography in the first decade of the 21st century.