Piper has spent the past two decades travelling the world, working with some of the world’s foremost media organisations.

In 1999 he witnessed and recorded the East Timorese struggle for independence. Other notable bodies of works include Where ships go to Die, his series on decommissioned ships in the Gulf of Cambay, India, Chinese enclaves around the world and Public Platform, a look at the mixing pot of life at Sydney’s Central train station.

In 2005 he was commissioned by the Sydney Opera House to document the first exterior changes to the building. This was followed by an exhibition of that work Breakthrough: Creating Utzon’s Colonnade, in 2006.

Piper has won numerous international and domestic awards and regularly exhibits in Australia. His work on the small Australian outback town of Roma from the series, What’s In a Name, has twice been exhibited in Montpellier, France and much of his work is now held in public and private collections, including the State Library of New South Wales and the Maritime Museum of Australia.

Piper lives in Sydney and co-founded Oculi in 2000.