Overlander magazine used to feature a photographer every month. My feature read as follows.

Like so many of the photographers that appear on these pages, Rob Gray has been many places and done many things. After leaving school in 1971, he traveled to England via Tahiti, Panama and The Azores. From England and Scotland he went to Europe and a passionate interest in photography awakened in him. On returning to Australia, Gray secured a job Canberra, with the Australian Information Service as a darkroom operator.

Then the wanderlust claimed him again. Off to Perth and New Zealand, back to Perth again, where he worked as a commercial/industrial photographer. Then came a trip around the east coast which ended in Darwin, were Rob stayed for some time before returning to London via the United States. In London, he once again worked in a darkroom, until he scored an assignment which represented a complete breakthrough into the world of rewarding photography: an assignment to fly to Nairobi to capture Kenyan wildlife on film. The results recently appeared in Signpost magazine.

Why does Australia ignore its homegrown talents? On returning here, Rob could only find work as a part-time newspaper photographer. So he returned to England, married a girl he had met in Kenya and 18 months ago turned freelance. Since then he's written and photographed articles about Africa, Paris and the Clarence River in northern NSW. He now has an agency in New York, which takes most of his photos, while he sends photo/story packages directly to magazines.

Rob's favourite cameras are two Canon F1s, both with motordrives. He uses a range of lenses from 16mm to 500mm, but uses 28mm and 100mm most often. He intends to turn his lenses primarily to Australian subject matter because of the great interest in this country overseas.

To this end he would like to team up with a journalist. Anyone want to team up with a young man going places?

Like most of these bio-style articles there's a bit of a beat up, but the basic facts are correct. I never did find a journalist.

The mag also used half of another image (original is horizontal) for the masthead/contents page. The shot shows fishermen off the coast of Malindi, north of Mombasa on the Kenyan coast.