Indonesia

INDONESIA a PHOTOGRAPHIC GUIDE by JULIAN BOUND

A photographic journey across the volcanic islands of Indonesia by National Geographic contributor and award winning documentary photographer Julian Bound.

From Jakarta's sprawling metropolis and Sumatra's city of Medan with its historic Dutch colonial architecture to the Javanese cities of Yogyakarta and Malang. The volcanoes of Mount Bromo and its horsemen of the Tenggerese tribes' people, and the sulphur mines of Ijen volcano in the eastern reaches of Java, where sulphur miners clamber up 800 metre stone trails carrying 90 kilograms of brimstone across their shoulders in homemade baskets, mined from Ijen's toxic crater beside a one kilometre wide lake of turquoise sulphuric acid.

With over 100 photographs in colour and black and white.

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 emerge

ABOUT THE AUTHORncy 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.