Portraits of Nepal - Photography Books by Julian Bound - E-book - ePub

PORTRAITS OF NEPAL a photography book by JULIAN BOUND Portraiture of the people of Nepal by National Geographic contributor Julian Bound. Intimate portraits from Nepal's capital Kathmandu, the village of Chhaimale, the Northern district of Sindhupalchowk on the Tibetan borderlands, and the lakeside city of Pokhara. A collection of unique portraiture of the Nepalese people taken over a five year period by award winning documentary photographer Julian Bound, depicting Nepalese life and culture in colour and black and white. ABOUT THE AUTHORBorn 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.