Mark Roy

• Mark wrote a feature for the Phnom Penh Post on Cambodia's burgeoning motorcycle culture with photographs from an enthusiasts' meet at an abandoned, two-mile-long concrete airstrip built by the Chinese during the Khmer Rouge era where local bikers clocked 190mph on Yamaha R1s.
• He had the pleasure of covering the thrills, spills, dust, and tears of Australia's toughest desert race, the iconic 500km (310 miles) Gascoyne Dash, in his first posting as a regional newspaper editor.
• A motoring enthusiast since the muscle car days of the 1970s Bathurst 500, Mark learned to drive in high school, where his rally-driving sports teacher taught him how to perform 180º handbrake turns on wet asphalt.

Experience

Mark is an experienced automotive accessory fitter, installing factory parts and compliance certification (door jamb) labels for newly imported models from Toyota, Mitsubishi, Honda, Kia, Hyundai, and more. He was a vehicle inspector for Western Australia's largest secondhand car wholesaler, recommending reconditioning work on jalopies ranging from pit-worn mining trucks to luxury Lamborghinis. A photographer and journalist with printer's ink in his veins, Mark used his skills to work his way across a range of newspaper mastheads from Australia's remote outback to Southeast Asia and beyond, working as a journalist and editor for the NT News, Northern Guardian, Albany Advertiser, Southeast Asia Globe, ASEAN News Today, Phnom Penh Post, Torres News, and such far-flung journals as the Arafura Times and the West Arnhem Wire. He loves travel, photography, motorcycling, slow food, and fast cars.

Education

Mark followed up his Bachelor of Arts in photo media from Edith Cowan University with a postgraduate diploma in journalism from Curtin University.