My family and my mac. Taken by my awesome photographer Dad.

Tash Jayasinghe is a photographer with a degree in journalism.

She used to have a death metal blog that had a raging debate over whether Cradle of Filth were commercial sell outs or the future of heavy metal. Perhaps they are a combination of both. Now, she focuses on capturing people and rambling in her spare time about cooking and creativity.

Her most joyous journalism experience came as the Chief of Staff for Charles Sturt’s university magazine, the Interpellator. She played the role of wayward feminist that told dirty jokes, played Metallica when she thought no one else was around and will be remembered as the sub-editing ice queen. During university, she had internships at Australian Women’s Health, News Magazines and at the Fairfax Community Newspapers‘ sub-editing desk.

In a bizarre and extremely long story, she worked as a technical writer for BroadSoft in 2007 and 2008. Even more strange was her three month internship at a marketing company in early 2009.

In Washington D.C, Tash worked at the World Bank, where she created a multimedia library for the Europe and Central Asia region. For the first time, staff throughout the region could access the photos they needed in under a minute as opposed to days or weeks. Applause was heard throughout Uzbekistan when the website launched.

She is currently based in Sydney, Australia but has dreams of living in Germany and San Francisco, U.S.A.

Voyuerism:

• Send feedback, recipes and love letters to tash[at]tashcancook.com, especially if you are a prince that’s about to come into some money.
• Add Tash on Twitter.
• Speak to her in broken Spanish and watch her struggle.
• Her first tattoo was a rose with a skull in the middle at age 18. Her best friend has a matching one in the exact same location and they had a budget of a combined $200. The tattoo parlour was picked purely because they played death metal music and you could smoke in the waiting room. Cause they were hardcore like that.
• Give her a bottle of Balvenie scotch and she’ll confess to anything.
• She once got suckered into sending an iPod into Nigeria by someone who claimed to be in the army and wanted to send a gift to her brother. It was on Craigslist. You have been warned.
• She hates typos and bad spelling but won’t judge you.