So much of the work out here is brand new. A display home that has to keep looking its best for months, not weeks. A house-and-land page that needs the façade shot before the front fence goes in. A finished build at Oran Park on a street the navigation hasn't learned yet. New builds photograph their own way — render-white walls that blow out under a midday sky, turf that went down on Tuesday, a streetscape that changes month to month — and the job is to shoot them for what they are: brand new, and ready.
And then there's the old Macarthur. A farmhouse kitchen in Elderslie with a brick feature wall. A weatherboard home with a pool. A heritage home behind its front gate. A Harrington Park pool at dusk. The corridor isn't all render and colorbond, and the photography can't be either.
Mile has photographed Sydney's south-west since 2005 — long enough to remember most of these streets as paddocks. If you list here, your week is often both at once: a turnkey four-bedder in a new release and a fifty-year-old weatherboard near the main street. Same camera, different problems. We know both.