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David Sark

Award-winning Sydney-based street photographer known for moody, atmospheric night photography; first-place winner of the Crown Sydney Artist Initiative.

Oct 1, 2026

Street Life

Street Life

David Sark

Oct 1 · 1h 4m

13:46
So have you always had that need, that urge to create, I guess, which is why you keep coming back to photography? Yeah.
13:52
Yeah, well, like, yeah, totally.
13:53
That's kind of, you know, that was the starting point, like that little point and shoot and sort of moving through and looking for other ways to express that through different cameras or, you know, through drawing or, you know, I've always been into, you know, sort of building and creating things.
14:11
Like, you know, as like an early teenager, I used to sort of build these plastic model kits of rally cars and fighter jets and things and stuff.
14:21
I just really love that focus of making something and just being engaged in it and all the different aspects that go along with it, like working out how the pieces fit together and the colour schemes of the fighter jets and stuff to finish it off.
14:40
It's always been something that I enjoy doing and spending my time doing.
14:46
I'm very good at like, I'm using myself in finding things to do.

7 MINS LATER

22:13
But that's also the anchor that holds you there like, ooh, do I go, do I stay? I'm glad you made that decision because look where it's taken you.

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