Initially, Kent worked as a sports photographer but by the 1920s he had embraced aerial photography using a specially crafted oblique camera.

Over the next 50 years, Kent used his camera to capture the opening of new blocks of land across Sydney, the construction of the harbour bridge and many other events up until his death in 1965.

[4] Between 1914 and 1918 he photographed boxers in fighting poses, including Sid Francis; Jimmy Hill; Herb McCoy; Jeff Smith; and Les Darcy.

[6] In 1911, he married Lillian Cropper, the daughter of an ex-mayor of Petersham but still found time to engage with the other love of his life, flying.

[8] Alert to the possibilities of aerial photography Kent took some images during one of Hart's flights using rapid panchromatic glass plates.

[9] In 1916, he was appointed official photographer to the State Government Aviation School at Richmond Sydney and became firm friends with the chief instructor, Captain W. J. Strutt.

But Kent was convinced there was a market in aerial photography and over this period, he hired aircraft from Nigel Love, to do photographic work.

[13] In 1920, Kent imported a half-plate oblique aero camera from Carl Zeiss AG in Germany for factory projects and real estate subdivisions.

[21] Kent and his co-pilot Larry Phipps were not injured although the plane needed to be dismantled and carried through dense scrub to the nearest road.