After developing his photographic skills making music videos,[1] Thomas moved to Melbourne and switched to SLR still photography.
[3][4] He has been exhibited internationally, been featured by Apple,[5] Adobe, and won the 2018 Hasselblad Masters along with the ACMP Projections Art Photographer of the Year Award in 2008.
(Chronicle Books)[10] which brought about the end of Cityshrinker and a hiatus from photography while developing new work.
[11] Thomas has also created a collection of photographs which he has called "Accession", in which large urban scenes are deconstructed and reconstructed in a kaleidoscopic style.
[13] Thomas was a 2015 artist in residence at the Villa Lena Foundation, Tuscany cited as the inspiration and genesis of the "Chroma" series.