He found refuge in the counter-culture of surfing and the imagery of National Geographic and Surfer Magazine and became determined to travel overseas.
As Gary Dufour noted in his essay in Indian Ocean Journals (Steidl, 2000): "Each photograph is shaped by incidents experienced as a traveller.
"[1] Pam has worked in Asian counties, Europe, Australia, and the Indian Ocean Rim cultures including India, Pakistan, Myanmar, Yemen, Tanzania, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Cocos and Christmas Islands.
The images leave the viewer, as Tim Winton said in Going East (Marval 1992), "grateful for having been taken so mysteriously by surprise and so far and sweetly abroad."
He has published work in journals and is represented in major public and private collections in Australia, Great Britain, France and Japan.