Documenting Asia Volume 5

DOCUMENTING ASIA VOLUME 5 by JULIAN BOUND

From National Geographic contributor and award winning documentary photographer Julian Bound. The fifth in a series of nine books of photojournalism documenting the people, culture and traditions of Asia and South East Asia.

'Documenting Asia Volume 5' includes:

•· Buddha effigies of Sri Lanka, India, Nepal, Thailand and Bhutan
•· Earthquake relief following the Nepali earthquakes of April and May 2015
•· Bathing in the Ganges, Varanasi, India
•· The Drepung Monastery, Lhasa, Tibet
•· The Fortress Monasteries of Bhutan
•· The bird markets of Malang, Indonesia

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Born in England, Julian is a documentary photographer, film maker and author. With photographic work featured on the BBC news, his photographs have been published in National Geographic, New Scientist and the international press. His work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions, with time spent studying meditation with the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and spiritual teachers of India's Himalaya region.

Present for the Nepal earthquakes of 2015 he documented the disaster for eighteen months whilst working as an emergency deployment photographer for various NGO and international embassies in conjunction with the United Nations.

The author of novels 'The Geisha and the Monk', 'Subway of Light' and 'Life's Heart Eternal', when not on the road in Asia, Julian is based in the UK.