"Burmese light : impressions of the Golden Land" is a photographic introduction to Myanmar, the country behind the Bamboo Curtain. Stunning images by award-winning photographer Hans Kemp, paired with a witty and insightful text by well-known author Tom Vater, take the reader on a journey through a fascinating country slowly but steadily emerging from a long period of involuntarily isolation. The 200-page book features all the country's famous sights, its colorful people and its multitude of customs, and leaves the reader with only one wish: to pay a visit to this amazing Golden Land.
Hans Kemp Ordine dei libri (cronologico)
Con oltre due decenni di immersione in Asia, questo fotografo cattura il mondo attraverso il suo obiettivo, concentrandosi sulle sfumature culturali e sulle narrazioni umane. Il suo lavoro editoriale ha adornato importanti pubblicazioni internazionali, mostrando il suo occhio attento ai dettagli e alla narrazione. Traduce la sua profonda comprensione e passione per il continente in libri avvincenti che illuminano tradizioni e modi di vita unici. La sua fotografia è una testimonianza del suo profondo legame con l'Asia, che si sforza di condividere con i suoi lettori.
The Asia Unique series of books highlights the extraordinary diversity of Asia by focusing on one specific topic, photographed in its amazing variety by some of the finest travel photographers currently covering Asia. Throughout the books, inspirational quotes and proverbs from Asia, related to the specific book topic, compliment the stunning images. Doors illustrates the many styles in which people across Asia design and decorate passageways to their homes and buildings.A Chinese proverb says, "Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself." Doors are symbols of passage and guardians of unknown treasures. Their character offers a hint of what lies behind. The variety of doors across Asia is without serene temples, magnificent forts, golden palaces, urban housing, and nomadic tents. Doors highlight the diversity of entrances across Asia captured in 132 stunning color photographs, and enriched by inspirational Asian quotes and proverbs related to doors.
Bikes of Burden
- 158pagine
- 6 ore di lettura
In Vietnam the motorbike is the main mode of transport, not only for people but for every imaginable and unimaginable product and produce. Without the motorbike the economy would come to a halt. Bikes of Burden shows in 148 stunning, full color photographs how the motorbikes, the drivers and their loads ride around the cities and countryside in acts that defy your wildest imagination.