The image of his included in this article is from the recent series Urban Diary. This subject could hardly be closer to Maynard. During a period of turmoil in his own life he documented a group of indigenous people who frequent a particular park in St Kilda, a suburb of Melbourne. He produced a photo essay that covered the factual realities of homelessness and substance abuse but, as might be expected of a gifted photographer working on a subject so close, the images never dwell on facile clichés of piteous victims. The second part of the project began when Maynard dealt with his own problems with alcohol by booking himself into Galiamble, a Melbourne rehabilitation centre run by members of the indigenous community. These extraordinary images record a process of repair and transformation from the nearest possible viewpoint.