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    The Little Book of Tibetan Portraits
    The Little Book of Tibetan Portraits
    The Little Book of Tibetan Portraits
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    The Little Book of Tibetan Portraits

    By Julian Bound

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    THE LITTLE BOOK OF TIBETAN PORTRAITS by JULIAN BOUND

     

    From National Geographic photography contributor Julian Bound portraiture of the people of Tibet.

     

    From Tibet's capital of Lhasa to the country's southern reaches of the Himalayas, Nepal's Tibetan community of Kathmandu's Boudhanath Stupa and India's Tibetan settlement of McLeod Ganj, a collection of unique portraiture of the Tibetan people by award winning documentary photographer Julian Bound, depicting traditional Tibetan life within the countries of Tibet, India and Nepal in colour and black and white.

     

    ABOUT THE AUTHOR

    Born in England, Julian Bound 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 in the international press. His work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions.

     

    Living in Asia and South East Asia for over a decade, Julian travelled extensively throughout Tibet between the years of 2004 and 2014. Having lived in Dharamsala, India, and Kathmandu, Nepal, he studied meditation under the tuition of the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and with spiritual teachers of India's Himalaya region.

     

    With portraiture work of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Julian has photographed the Tibetan refugee camps of Nepal and India. His other projects include the gypsies of Rajasthan, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, and the sulphur miners at work in the active volcanoes of Eastern Java, Indonesia.

     

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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJulian Bound
    Release dateFeb 19, 2021
    ISBN9781393719458
    The Little Book of Tibetan Portraits
    Author

    Julian Bound

    Born in the UK, Julian Bound is a documentary photographer, film maker and author. Featured on the BBC news, National Geographic and in the international press, his work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions, spending time studying meditation with the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and with spiritual teachers of India’s Himalaya region. His photography work includes documenting the child soldiers of the Burmese Karen National Liberation Army, the Arab Spring of 2011, Cairo, Egypt, and the Thailand political uprisings of 2009 and 2014 in Bangkok. With portraiture of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Julian has photographed the Tibetan refugee camps of Nepal and India. His other projects include the road working gypsies of India, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, the rail track slums of Jakarta and the sulphur miners at work in the active volcanoes of Eastern Java, Indonesia. Present for the Nepal earthquakes of 2015, he documented the disaster whilst working as an emergency deployment photographer for various NGO and international embassies in conjunction with the United Nations. Julian has published  photography books of settings across the world, including portraiture work, and city guides, and has also published several poetry books, including ‘Haiku, a Journey Through the Deepest Emotions’, Julian is also the author of  the novels ‘The Geisha and the Monk’, ‘Subway of Light’ and ‘Life’s Heart Eternal’.

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