anton lutz

“My journey with photography began soon after my parents moved our family to Papua New Guinea in the 1980s. I watched my father work, explore, teach – among many other vocations, he was a trauma surgeon at a rural hospital in the highlands. He taught me to see the little things – the nuances, textures, details – while we did hard things in beautiful places.

Dad would take me along on medical patrols to some of the most remote parts of PNG. Land at a remote airstrip. Jump in a canoe. Head upstream. Start walking. Make camp. Walk another day. In looking for patients, we ended up finding waterfalls, adventures and lifelong friends.

After university, I returned to work alongside my parents. The work expanded into health education and airstrip construction, community engagement and social justice work. The years passed by in a rush. I found myself in need of a better camera.

Wherever we are, wherever we look, there is the good, the bad, the ugly. Sometimes all mixed up. Here’s to looking for the details, the glimpses of beauty we don’t fully understand yet. Here’s to doing things that will make others’ lives a bit better. Here’s to doing hard things in beautiful places.”