Beck and His Travels

The writing and photography of Alexander Beck

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  • The Challenges

    The Challenges

    I thought that finding a job would be easy. I thought that giving up the comforts that I had become accustomed to would be easy. I thought that staying longer would be easy. The truth is, there was little that was easy about it…

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  • A Brief Stop in Sydney

    A Brief Stop in Sydney

    A shouting match ensued. Each side had one guy at the forefront that accelerated the aggression and two or three guys trying to hold him back. The tension could only build for so long…

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  • Melbourne’s Library

    Melbourne’s Library

    Dozens of wooden cabinets each contained drawers stuffed with hand written or typed entries. When I asked how many entries there were, Graham replied without hesitation that there were millions…

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  • Into Melbourne

    Into Melbourne

    The sound of trams rolling down the center of the major roads mixed with the voices of thousands and was topped by the high pitched ticking sound that indicated when one could use the crosswalk. I was in a tornado of human experience…

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  • False Start

    False Start

    Planes only crashed in dramatic fashion in the movies, right? One of the pilots hurried to the seat and stared out the tiny window. He scurried back to the cockpit as quickly as he had arrived…

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