In The Field

De: Julian Bound

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

In The Field by Julian Bound

A unique journey across the world from documentary photographer and National Geographic photographic contributor Julian Bound. Funny, poignant and often touching, a story of capturing world events, conflicts and culture on camera whilst living on the road as a photographer.

From the child soldiers of a Burmese liberation army to photographing the moment Nepal’s 2015 earthquake struck, In The Field tells of encounters within Java’s active volcanoes, Cairo’s Arab Spring, Bangkok’s coup d'état, and a venture into covert photography for a government in exile.

Alongside tales of conflict and natural disasters another journey is recounted, one which saw to documenting Buddhism throughout Asia and South East Asia, including Bhutan’s fortress monasteries, Tibet’s remote temples, chanting Tantric monks of the Himalayas, and meeting His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama at his 80th birthday celebrations.

Stories featured include:

• The Karen National Liberation Army
• Nepal’s Maoist Civil War
• Rebellion on the streets of Bangkok
• Tibetan refugees
• A journey through Tibet
• Mumbai’s Dharavi slums
• Cambodia’s Killing Fields
• The Nepal earthquakes of 2015
• His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama

About The Author
Born in England, Julian 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 the international press. His work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions, with time spent studying meditation with the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and spiritual teachers of India’s Himalaya region.

His photography work includes documenting the child soldiers of Myanmar’s Karen National Liberation Army, the Arab Spring of 2011, Cairo, Egypt, and Thailand’s political uprisings of 2009 and 2014 in Bangkok.

With portraiture of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Julian has extensively photographed the Tibetan refugees of Nepal and India. His other projects include the road working gypsies of Rajasthan, India, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, the riverside squatter slums of Yogyakarta 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 and the World Wildlife Foundation.

With numerous published photography books Julian is also the author of nine novels including Subway of Light, Life’s Heart Eternal, The Geisha and The Monk, By Way of The Sea and All Roads.