TOM DE SOUZA
Tom de Souza is an award-winning journalist, and a surfer, adventurer, writer, photographer, and film-maker.
His work as an independent print journalist has earned him three consecutive West Australian Media Awards and at 23-years-old saw him nominated as a finalist for the WA Journalist of the Year.
His stories have appeared in The Weekend Australian magazine, BBC Indonesia, The West Australian, and syndicated across Fairfax publications The Age, The Sydney Morning Herald, and WAToday.
He writes regularly for Tracks Magazine and The West Australian.
His photography has featured on ABC Television and various advertising campaigns, and in 2018 he was awarded a grant from Otherside Brewing Co. to produce a short film, Down the Wrong Path, which featured in the 2018 Revelation Film Festival.
Tom is currently writing his first book, Meth: A journey back to love, which tells his story of recovering joy and finding purpose and self-love after the teenaged years he lost to ice addiction and juvenile detention.
A natural linguist, Tom is fluent in Italian and Indonesian, and has worked with BBC Indonesia in Jakarta producing stories in Bahasa Indonesia.
For Tom, art is a way of interacting with the world rather than a simple practical activity. He has dedicated himself to freedom of this lifestyle, pursuing a different kind of life along the road less travelled.