All at once, I realized that hackers were the people I’d been searching & subconsciously waiting for my whole life. It was like being beamed aboard an experimental anarchist spacecraft full of creative technology & the coolest, weirdest people imaginable, forever immersed in fascinating projects & conversations. When I lived in San Francisco, there was a hackerspace in the Mission district that became my entire world for two wild years. Review of Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid The women have shown great bravery in the face of turmoil and tried to maintain a sense of family.” The refugee experience had also tremendous importance for him because of his strong opinion on the way the Australian government handled the refugee crisis.

All their lives they’ve been caring and looking after their families and now they lost a lot homes, jobs, prolific careers. As the conversation goes on you could see through the cracks how intense the tragedy they’ve been through. What drew him to the experience was mostly, “Talking to the men and seeing how despite everything they try to sustain their integrity, how their roles -as providers for their homes- were affected and it hurts them. Being a farm boy and growing up on a farm in Daylesford (a small town in Victoria, Australia) still didn’t keep him from barely escaping death during an ice-climbing trip in New Zealand, and traveling deep in the desert on photography missions with the “Act for Peace” organization, Gallagher documented experiences of the Syrian refugees in Talbiah Camp in Jordan and Al-Amari Camp in Ramallah. From directing serious documentaries to flirting on-screen with countless love interests on the famous Aussie soap opera “Home and Away”, Gallagher is not what you’d expect from your average 26-year-old Australian.

Going from one extreme to the other seems to be his game.

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