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Kathmandu offers much more than ancient shrines and palaces though the city does have a surplus of those and there’s a temple on almost every street corner, Buddhist, Hindu, often something in between. But beyond religion and age old tradition, the city in in flux, straining towards its own definition of modernity, with only the [...]
After a seven year break, far too long, I am back in the heavenly city for a few days.
Kathmandu has grown into a little urban monster but once the shock at the congestion has worn off, the Nepali capital unfolds as a multi-layered, booming mountain town, quite happily bouncing between tradition and modernity, in almost [...]
I have decided to put some of my stock photography up on Alamy, the world`s largest stock photo library. I am about to upload images from the past five years work and travel in South East Asia.
Along with 1.200 images I am currently offering via OnAsia Images (www.onasia.com), the growing collection on Alamy is the [...]
Kampot, southern Cambodia.
The heat is infernal. Several salt farms lie outside of this small, sleepy riverside town. Large fields irrigated with saltwater stretch for miles across a flat and hot expanse. The evergreen Elephant Mountains loom in the distance, reflected in the stagnant shallow brine. Men and women, wrapped up in cloth against the [...]