We travelled to meet Riki in a small town near Osaka in March 2009. Riki, a nephew of our good Japanese friend, turned 18 at the time and had just joined heya – a sumo stable. Heyas are normally not open to outside visitors so this visit became for us a rare opportunity to get […]
This is a portrait of Istanbul taken in October 2008. The city is defined as much by water as it is by its urban tissue. The sea rolls in the most dramatic clouds; you can smell its aroma and feel its breeze at every corner. Our images seem to be “drawn” with a sharp pen in […]
Whenever we think of our favourite photographs, the images from India always come to mind. We love particularly the ones we chose for the series ‘Parallel Stories’. Two of the images really are special amongst the selection. Taken in Rajasthan, these two spontaneous portraits embody the deep beauty of the Indian people. He spends his […]
India. Travelling to India was on our minds for awhile. Perhaps since the time we became close, so somewhere during summer of 2002. I remember my surprise when I first learned that Les was born in Madras, his family having decided to relocate to Australia when he was five years old and that neither he […]
Just a few images of places that we travelled to in India in 2008: busy cityscapes and vast, open spaces, from Cochin to Darjeeling.
We landed in Siem Reap on Christmas day in 2007. The fact that it was Christmas did not matter much in this Buddhist country and we welcomed the absence of the commercial reality of Western festivities. The timing was ideal: after the mid year rainy season and just before the hot, dry spells that settle […]
