http://www.thepunch.com.au/author-bios/sam-mooy/ Sam Mooy picked up a camera and began his photographic career at age 15 in Tamworth, New South Wales.  He worked various photographic jobs throughout high school before beginning a brief stint as a cadet journalist in Armidale. At 18, Sam moved to Sydney where he worked as a freelance photographer contributing to The Courier newspaper group and Australian Associated Press. At 21 Sam was employed by The Australian as a staff photographer. He was initially employed to work from the South Australian bureau, a one-man photographic position. In 2008 and 2009, Sam was a photographic finalist in The Young Journalist of the Year awards, a MEAA/Walkley awards initiative. Currently Sam is posted in the Sydney bureau for The Australian. en Copyright 2013 The Punch penberthyd@newsltd.com.au penberthyd@newsltd.com.au Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 19:00:10 +0000 Politics, opinion, world news, sports news, latest news, views, Barack Obama, Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard, Nathan Rees, Malcolm Turnbull, Peter Garrett, Barnaby Joyce, Australian, federal politics, opinion polls, election, The Punch, thepunch, punch ExpressionEngine 1.6.7 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 15 http://www.thepunch.com.au/images/punch-logo-rss.png http://www.thepunch.com.au/ 144 70 Politics, political opinion, world news, sports news and the latest news and views updated live, daily on The Punch - Australia's best conversation. Search The Punch keywords http://www.thepunch.com.au/search/ http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/light-and-shade-as-masons-let-us-into-their-world/ The call from the picture editor on The Australian came early on a Tuesday. Not unusual, but the pictorial brief was to photograph inside the Freemasons’ Grand Lodge in the centre of Sydney, drawing back the veil of secrecy around the organisation which features in Dan Brown’s new book, The Lost Symbol. I’m not a fan of Dan Brown, nor do I profess to be Freemansony. I knew very little about the subject when I walked into the lift at the Freemasons United Grand Lodge.. I knew that with Freemasons there were handshakes, secret passwords, aprons and something to do with architecture. feedback@thepunch.com.au (Sam Mooy) Article, Behind the picture http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/light-and-shade-as-masons-let-us-into-their-world/#comments http://www.thepunch.com.au/articles/light-and-shade-as-masons-let-us-into-their-world/#item1275 Tue, 22 Sep 2009 19:50:08 +0000 Sam Mooy | Author bios | The Punch