[7] Marlow says he was first inspired to make street photography at age eight by the book Subway Art (1984),[8] which documents the early history of New York City's graffiti movement.
[10] Marlow says he was next significantly inspired at college by the work of photographers Robert Frank, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Alex Webb, and more recently by architecture, design and the Australian painters Jeffrey Smart and Howard Arkley.
[11] He made trips to the outback (the vast, remote, arid interior of Australia) over four years[10][12] to photograph the game that has a rich tradition[11] and is played with a "commitment and passion not seen anywhere else around the country".
He was inspired after breaking his arm and unable to operate a camera, he became tuned to noticing others in a similar position and they were subsequently all he photographed for the next two years.
[9][14] He has said that his "aim with the project was to show that despite people suffering obvious superficial injuries, human beings dust themselves off and get on with life.