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The Journey

Throughout my adventures of inner-city and outback Australia I have developed a hunger to gather knowledge about what it means to be an Australian. Documenting the varying life styles and personalities of all classes, races, religions and sexes of individuals inhabiting this vast continent, I have come to realise that every person has a need to feel as though they belong.

It is not essential to be a part of a particular class, race, religion or sex to belong here in Australia, it is the ability to possess a clear image of the society as a whole in order to recognise your role as a worthy contributing factor.

It is my goal, as a contributor to Australian society, to document as truthfully and accurately as possible, a contemporary vision of what it means to be Australian in the 21st century.

I am currently based in Perth, Western Australia where I have been documenting for the past two years. I have recently been recording the Cray fishing and pearl farming industries of Geraldton and the Abrolhos Islands
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The next leg of my journey will take me to the mid-west, where I hope to record the new and changing faces of this fast developing region.

Darren Clark - July 2009