'Martin Hawes was born in the UK and emigrated to Tasmania when he was 12. In his early teens he discovered a passion for bushwalking that has led him to spend much of his life in the Tasmanian wilderness, often on solo expeditions of 2-3 weeks' duration. [Hawes] has worked as a semi-professional wilderness photographer since the late 1970s, supporting himself financially by specialising in the management of remote-area walking tracks...'
(Source: Author's website, www.martinhawes.info)
