IT started with a house south of Brisbane…

When he was 12 years old, Luke Henery’s father built a house on a mountain in Cornubia, near Logan. He was going to a school 25 minutes away in Mansfield, and with no friends around he was eager to find something to do.

“Mum worked long hours, dad was always busy. My sister moved out when she was 18. So I was in this big house all alone with nothing to do,” explains Luke.

Luke, of course, is best known as the bassist for Violent Soho , the giant-killing punk-rock band from the Brisbane suburb of Mansfield. But on this occasion he’s not talking about music – he’s talking about photography.

“Mum did this course and learned to print in a darkroom,” he says. “She bought a little film SLR camera. That phase for her didn’t last very long. So I adopted the camera and started shooting.”

Photography is at the front of Luke’s mind right now. He sits at a riverside cafe underneath Brisbane’s Gallery of Modern Art, cradling a coffee and absentmindedly tugging at his t-shirt. It’s a Thursday during the school holidays and there are kids and families everywhere, focused on enjoying the holidays.