Asia - First Photos

"What's your name?"

"Where'd you come from?"

In 2012 I went travelling for 8 months around India, Nepal and China.  

I travelled on local transport for thousands of miles, walked for hundreds, ate the local food and lived as deep in these countries as I could.   I visited around 60 places, both the massive cities and the tiny towns.   I went to the tourist attractions and got off the beaten path.

The project I've come back with is of both the people and the landscapes of these countries.   These two aspects are both integral to the character of the countries but inform different aspects of the experience.  

​The photos above are a small selection from the start of the trip, to give a taste.   I'm working on an offline project at the moment to get these photos into the world and on to paper.

More to come...​

Travels

So, here is a map with our journey through Asia on it!  

We travelled through the 3 countries marked on the map over 10 months.   We spent 4 months in India, 2 months in Nepal then 2 months in China.   We also stopped off in Turkey, Bulgaria and Poland on our way home.

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The markers are places we stayed for one night or more.   The blue lines are bus journeys, the red is buses and the yellow is flights.

Its been a mad trip and a lot of fun!

Street Photography

So, I've been shooting street photography for the last year and have finally got a group of photos together to show.

Street Photography Gallery

I love the process of shooting on the street.   Its always a balance how close you get to people, how obvious you make it that you are taking someones photo and it is a continual hunt to find interesting moments that last for a millisecond then are gone.   

The process is an interesting one, which normally just gives you 1 photo each day you spend walking around.   Other days a few moments will just appear from nowhere.   Thats a great feeling when these things just work!   So, go and have a look at the gallery and tell me what you think...