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Written by Jerry Riley
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Thursday, 09 October 2008 |
In 1986, I traveled to Nepal, through India, making my first trip out of North America; my first chance to see how the rest of the world lives.
I had become infatuated with Nepal after reading Peter Matthiessen's "The Snow Leopard "- his account of traveling through the Himalayas. Of course I had gone for the landscapes, but had developed an interest in how people live in different parts of the world. In retrospect, when I look at these pictures now, I see that I was following a theme that has been perhaps the connecting thread in my travel pictures: how people inhabit their landscape, how they use it's resources, it's terrain to develop lifestyles unique to the region. Little did I know that this was the first step of a larger journey.
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Click on the image on the left to see my photographs from Nepal |
What I saw in India and Nepal while I traveled by plane, train, bus and
foot was the texture of the world, the way painted buildings, people's
clothes, vast mountains merged together to give way to view of lives
being lived. I see the world in colour, like a massive intricate
canvas, every human act a precise role in a larger script. The phrase
'art is life, life is art' comes to mind. I think much of my success
with photographs comes from avoiding tourist destinations, choosing
instead to walk the streets so that the surprises may find me.
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