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I seldom post photos alone. Here are a few shots I've taken, they are mostly iPhone shots. Mentawai IslandsFort Canning, SingaporeTeges, Bali IndonesiaUbud, Bali, IndonesiaHoly Transfiguration Monastery, NSW, AustraliaKranji Wetlands, SingaporeAthensOtterMarket stall, Ainaro, Timor L'EsteSaprophytesSydney, NSW, AustraliaCannonball tree flower, SingaporeSarai River, Timor L'Este

Some twenty-six years ago I had the privilege of working with talented television producer Pria Viswalingam. Born in Kota Bahru, Malaysia, in 1962 Pria has since travelled the world and is a globally recognised documentary filmmaker. I happened to be going through some old DVDs recently and came across the edition of Fork in the … Continue reading A Fork in the Road

Here is a short video with glimpses of each of the stories in my new book Beyond Borders: A conversation across boundaries. The book is now published as: 1. An Apple Book in a multimedia format 2. A Kindle with links to a multimedia site. 3. As a pdf (see the link on this page) It took me … Continue reading Beyond Borders At a Glance

Here are just a few of the images associated with stories that appear in Beyond Borders: A conversation across boundaries. The full multimedia version of the book is now available through Apple Books. For your copy just click on the Apple Book icon opposite, or use the link below, and visit the Apple Books store. … Continue reading Beyond Borders is Now Live

This panorama is assembled from photos taken at my special place in Coogee. My first book Seen and unseen: A century of Stories from Asia and the Pacific, begins a short distance from this very site. The Prologue to my work https://soundcloud.com/maximos-russell-darnley/beyond-borders-conversations-across-boundaries-prologue Reactions to my work To paraphrase one reader's response to my latest work, … Continue reading Beyond Borders: Prologue

In 2018 the Australian Department of the Environment and Energy, with the participation of New South Wales, Victorian, and Western Australia commissioned the Annual Australian Plastics Recycling Survey. This aimed to provide an overview of the consumption and recycling of plastics in Australia during the 2017–18 financial year. The key findings for the period were: … Continue reading Disposable Plastic Consumption and #COVID19

Both physical and unseen borders have long been with us but for numerous reasons have not always been permanent, their locations and porosity varying over time. When I first left Australia, travelling from Sydney to Perth and on to Singapore in 1972 I crossed as many as twenty-six ancient borders within Australia. Such ancient borders … Continue reading Beyond Borders: Latest News