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When
I quit my career in computing in 1995, I had no idea that I was
about to become a regular traveller let alone a photographer. After
my first few hesitant steps in this amazingly different culture,
begun on the back of my short association with Therevada Buddhism
in Brighton, England, I soon found my feet and learned to explore
this new world, both without and within. |
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The
internal journey, whilst inseparable from the outer has been far more
subtle and diaphanous in its experiences and communicability.
The
outer adventures gradually became more absorbing and, via writing, sketching
and then photography developed into a wealth of tangible images and memories
collected over nearly 3 years of transience between England, South East Asia and New Zealand,
as I continued to seek to create the lifestyle whose elusiveness prompted
the travelling in the first place. |
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As
I experienced the people, landscapes, temples, sights, sounds, smells,
sensations and began to get beneath the surface of languages and customs
as I travelled, I found the reality of South East Asia to be diverse and
complex beyond belief. Every new country I visited, from Thailand, Burma,
Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia (then later Nepal via Bangladesh)
opened unimaginable and uncountable variations of culture, religion, tradition,
music, art and custom, of which I could only absorb a small fraction.
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The
photographs and stories I present here are just a small selection from
my already rich and plentiful cache. Though the depth of my ever-growing
fascination may not initially be obvious from them, nor what this period
meant to me, they nevertheless capture, for me the very essence and Vision
of Asia. |
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