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I am a photographer with a special interest in portraiture. Informal pictures made on the streets of South Asia is what I enjoy the most. Since the advent of digital photography, however, I'm discovering, like many others, that the new technology has opened up whole new worlds that I could only dream about when I was shooting film.

I love digital for what it allows you do on your computer. And the spontaneity it has brought back into making pictures. The DSLRs available are absolute miracles of engineering which produce mind boggling magic. But I also like the low-tech of the new tech. I mean the cheap cameras that each of us carries with us most days; the one in our mobile/cell phone. A lot of these galleries show some of the avenues I'm pursusing with my little mobile phone. Even though the resolution is poor and the colours a bit 'fungible' it produces some very intriguing images.

I have recently begun digitalizing much of my film collection and so that will be going up eventually. But in the meantime, I hope you enjoy these galleries and welcome any comments or conversations you might want to begin.

You may also want to check out some of the coffee table books I've published using Blurb's Booksmart software. If you have ever been in the least interested in publishing a coffee table book of your photos, this is the state of the art.http://www.blurb.com

Featured Galleries

Mobile Flowers : All these flowers were captured with a very cheap mobile phone camera in and around Melbourne.

Mobile Flowers

All these flowers were captured with a very cheap mobile phone camera ...

Updated: Sep 12, 2007 12:55am PST

Buzkashi : Buzkashi, Kok-boru or Oglak Tartis (Persian: بزکشی bozkæšī, Tajik: бузкашӣ buzkašī: goat grabbing) (Uzbek, Tatar, Turkmen: kökbörü, kök "blue" + börü "wolf", Kazakh: көкпар, Kyrgyz: улак-тартыш) is a traditional Central Asian team sport played on horseback. The steppes' people were skilled riders who could grab a goat or calf from the ground while riding a horse at full gallop. The goal of a player is to grab the carcass of a headless goat or calf, and then get it clear of the other players and pitch it across a goal line or into a target circle or vat.
The game is known as Buzkashi in Afghanistan and among Persian-speaking populations of Central Asia while in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan the game is referred to as Kok-boru or Ulak Tartysh.[1]

This set of photos was made in 1990 on a Sunday evening in one of the large Afghan refugee camps on the outskirts of Peshawar, in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province.

Buzkashi

Buzkashi, Kok-boru or Oglak Tartis (Persian: بزکشی bozkæšī, Ta ...

Updated: Sep 12, 2007 1:02am PST

In Search of the Indian Jesus : Jesus of Nazareth, as this gallery shows, is a wholly Indian diety. His image is well recognized across the country. Some of the oldest Christian communities, like the Mar Thoma of Kerala, are found here. One popular legend states that after his crucifixion Jesus made his way to Kashmir where he married a local girl and died quietly many years later. Others claim he learned his spiritual ways from Himalayan gurus before starting his ministry in Palestine.  In the more humanist and popular forms of Hinduism Jesus is considered one of the avatars (incarnations) of Vishnu.  By promoters of modern India's secular national culture Jesus is enlisted along with Hindu gods and symbols of Islam as if to say 'we are all the same'.

About 2% of Indians are Christians and most live in the south and northeast. These pictures were made mostly in Chennai and Andhra Pradesh during 2006.

In Search of the Indian Jesus

Jesus of Nazareth, as this gallery shows, is a wholly Indian diety. Hi ...

Updated: Jul 03, 2007 3:51am PST

Myanmar Daze : The name is obviously a spoof of Orwell's famous novel but somehow 'daze' seems appropriate. I visited Myanmar in 2004 on Red Cross business. I spent several days in Yangon (Rangoon) as well as up in the northern Shan State, in and around Kengtung (pronounced shan-tung). The entire time I felt as if I was in another 'zone'. The strongest feeling to remain with me was of a land and people cocooned in a weird time warp. It was as if some alien force had placed a bubble around Burma and then retreated back into space. Time hadn't exactly stopped in Myanmar but it barely moved. I was pleasantly surprised with the strong Indian flavor of the culture, from Hindu shrines on the street corner to a very syncretic curried cuisine and pockets of  Nepalis and Bengalis that popped up in the most unexpected places.  Like many African countries the land is rich with gems; unlike most African countries, they are still traded openly on the streets. 

In the middle of my trip there was an internal coup. Nothing happened. Traffic didn't stop. Tanks didn't appear. The nightly news showed the biggest of all Burmese generals visiting an animal husbandry project in the provinces. It was only on BBC that we learned the entire government and top layer of the bureaucracy was either out of work or behind bars. Nothing so much as a breeze rippled the Burmese political trees.

Next to North Korea there is not a more weird, creepy, yet gorgeous and fascinating place than Myanmar.

Myanmar Daze

The name is obviously a spoof of Orwell's famous novel but somehow 'da ...

Updated: Jul 15, 2007 8:24pm PST

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Art

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