Potts' photography work was considered distinctive with an unusual tone and sensitivity.
[3] After finishing high school in 1944, Potts served in the Royal Australian Air Force.
He later developed an interest in photography; in 1945, during the Repatriation Scheme, he trained to improve his skills.
They held an exhibition in Sydney where they reasserted the importance of subject matter rather than pure style.
The exhibition stressed the need to make spontaneous and personal recordings of observed entities and human behavior' as opposed to the slickness of commercial work.