Adrian Beckingham – Travel Writer, Photographer & Storyteller
I graduated from the Australian College of Journalism as a Travel Writer & Photographer in 1998, and since then I have combined words, images, and activism to shed light on ...
Adrian Beckingham – Travel Writer, Photographer & Storyteller
I graduated from the Australian College of Journalism as a Travel Writer & Photographer in 1998, and since then I have combined words, images, and activism to shed light on some of the world’s most urgent stories.
During the 1980s I was one of only three paid staff writers for my university campus magazine OPUS. Winning the Newcastle Herald English Prize for topping my academic year in the study of English Literature, I quickly ventured onto the world stage. I independently travelled to Germany to join the media scrum at the frontline of world politics and revolution by documenting the Fall of the Berlin Wall. I interviewed university students from both East and West; the resulting interviews were produced as the 'Peeking Through The Wall' interviews which were published across Australia campus magazines.
I then moved into environmental campaigning as National Coordinator of Greenpeace Australia, where I helped lead a successful campaign that saved an entire generation of whales from slaughter, tightened wildlife hunting license laws in Australia, and travelled to the USA to campaign for the closure of Trojan nuclear.
Since then, my storytelling and humanitarian work has taken me across continents - from supporting projects that prevented children in Nepal from being trafficked, to living this year (2025) for seven weeks in a remote Maasai goat-herding village in Kenya, joining the locals to walk for hours to seek water, documenting an exclusive Maasai-led safari where the exchange was friendship not money. During this safari we came up close to all of the game many tourists pay big dollars and see and glimpse often next to nothing of: we saw every manner of game from rhinos to lionesses, wildebeest to hippos to zebras and giraffes.
As a journalist, I have also served as an award-winning Editor-in-Chief for a London housing magazine, amplifying unheard voices in urban communities. My passion for amplifying human stories continues through my podcasting work on my The Man From Story Mountain podcast which features regular slots such as 'From Myth to Miracle' and 'Give Peace A Chance'. On this platform recent interviews talking on the theme of global peace have included the great grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and the great granddaughter of Winston Churchill. Overall, my podcast has gained Spotify recognition for ranking in the top 20% of globally shared content, with listeners in over 50 countries worldwide.
Across three decades as a professional storyteller, I have published multiple books, performed in over 3,000 schools, and collaborated with institutions such as the British Museum, English Heritage, and Glastonbury Festival. Whether through the lens of a camera, the rhythm of a story, or the microphone of a podcast, my mission remains the same: to capture the courage, wisdom, and beauty of humanity in its many forms.
From September 2025 to January 2026 I will be touring Japan, Bali and Australia as a photo journalist and Master Storyteller.
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