08/09/2026
🫁 KL sky today. The Twin Towers have disappered from view. I have a million things coming at me right now: work to deliver, groceries to do, garden to tend. At the same time I'm inhaling this god-awful haze, a gift from our land-clearing neighbour in Kalimantan, Indonesia. Between January and July this year, an area nearly three times the size of Singapore was burnt according to Infonesia's Ministry of Forestry (CNA, Sept 2026).
I guess you've seen the scale of the devastation in the news: deaths if rare animal species, hundreds of schools closed in Sarawak, Malaysia. Political leaders playing down the concerned of student activists while asthma cases shot up by the thousands.
It makes me uncomfortable writing this, as I feel I'm dragged into the territory documentary photography. But I'm not seeing many photographers screaming about it.
We're not supposed to meditate while the fire is raging. We need to put it out first.
