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    Facing East - Photos from the Heart
    Facing East - Photos from the Heart
    Facing East - Photos from the Heart
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    Facing East - Photos from the Heart

    By Roger Morgan

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    I am a hunter. I haunt the walled lanes of far away villages, hang out in markets and bazaars, walk clockwise in a kora of prayer-spinning old ladies, earning my points from the gods and the spirits that frequent this monastery or that. I eat with the truckies, the farmers, the monks. My bearing relaxed, camera always at hand, pointing, its long lens inhibiting, always questioning: who are you, who are you? Then I stop, a face holds me, I try not to stare yet I want so much more: What have you done? What have you seen? Your past, what of the future? I can only imagine. I take a picture, then another and another. No counterfeit smiles for me. I want the real thing. Get under the skin, enter the personal, the space that divides, that calls for reflex. The shutter snaps to snare that involuntary retort that says this is me, this is me - the moment when all those facial muscles spring into play; so hard to replicate that which cannot easily be copied has value. I like faces. For the old, the lines and the wrinkles like growth rings in a tree. For the young their countenance fresh like tabula rasa, their story yet to be written. Old ladies and the young, they work well for me. The former not reticent to confront, the latter once through the hurdles of shyness - having seen their image on the camera screen - become charming actors in a world of the could-be. What makes a good face? I dont know - I believe if I did the dialogue would stop coming.



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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris AU
    Release dateApr 17, 2013
    ISBN9781483603797
    Facing East - Photos from the Heart
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    Roger Morgan

    ROGER MORGAN has degrees in Engineering and the Arts. He started his career as an apprentice at the Royal Naval Dockyard, Portsmouth, England. He journeyed to Australian in 1967 and spent a year on Macquarie Island with an Australian Antarctic Research Expedition. Since then he has held positions in Research, Corporate Strategy and Operations with a National TELCO. His interest in photography grew out of a passion for pelagic birds and their habitat. But it’s the human face that intrigues him, in that expressions can be both generic and universal and thus culturally neutral. He attempts to show this in his images; to illustrate yet again how small the world is. Photo by Susan Love

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      Facing East - Photos from the Heart - Roger Morgan

      Copyright © 2013 by Roger Morgan. 502283-MORG

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2013903900

      ISBN: Softcover:    978-1-4836-0377-3

      ISBN: Hardcover:   978-1-4836-0378-0

      ISBN: Ebook:          978-1-4836-0379-7

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. Date: 07/13/2013

      Xlibris

      1-800-618-969

      www.xlibris.com.au

      CONTENTS

      INTRODUCTION

      CHINA - Yunnan And Sichuan.

      INDIA - Ladakh

      PAKISTAN - Khyber Pakhtunkhwa And Gilgit-Baltisan

      NEPAL - Kathmandu Valley And Pokhara

      ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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      "We shall not cease from exploration

      And the end of all our exploring

      Will be to arrive where we started

      And know the place for the first time."

      ‘Little Gidding’ T.S. Elliot

      INTRODUCTION

      The Himalayas and their extension ranges to the east and west contain the forty highest mountains on the planet. The melt water from their glaciers funnel through the deep valleys they create and grow to become the Indus, the Ganges the Yangtze … rivers that bring fertility to the millions of people who live within reach of their waters. Thus communities flourished. But this unique geography has left a deeper legacy on the people it supports. Over countless generations, in the almost complete isolation that these mountains divined, distinct populations developed. During more recent time, migrations from outside e.g. Central Asia, India and Tibet, and the opening of trade routes have further influenced the development of these cultures. In current times, however, this slow progression is taking a new, faster turn. Climate change may well result in severe water shortages through accelerating glacial retreat, and the rapacious technologies of computing and telecommunication are opening the established ways of life to both the promise and vicissitudes of a wider world.

      All these past and prospective influences have made and are making a visible mark on the people who live in this region. In North West Yunnan, the Yulong Snow Mountain’s nineteen glaciers are predicted to disappear within the next ten years. In North

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