Unpublished, Unseen VI

Istanbul, Turkey

 Over the past thirty years, I have taken nearly a million pictures. 
Many of them have been published in my books, in magazines, and
seen in my exhibitions,but a majority have never been seen.
Here are a few of those unseen pictures.

Baluchistan, Pakistan

Sicily, Italy

Tibet

 

Yemen

Lhasa, Tibet

Afghanistan 

Gujarat, India

Mizoram, India

Japan

Havana, Cuba

Havana, Cuba

Bangkok, Thailand

Chang Mai, Thailand

Italy

Cape Town, South Africa

Kali Gandaki, Nepal

India

 E X H I B I T I O N S

CHRIS BEETLES FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHS
3-5 Swallow Street
London W1B 4DE
September 7 – 24, 2011

PETER FETTERMAN GALLERY
2525 Michigan Ave #A1
Santa Monica, CA 90404
September 10 – December 1, 2011

OPEN SHUTTER GALLERY
735 Main Avenue
Durango, CO
September 9 – December 14, 2011

LAURA RATHE FINE ART

September 17 – October 15

Houston, TX

MACRO
Museum of Contemporary Art
Rome, Italy
December 1, 2011 – April 29, 2012

Unpublished, Unseen 4

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011

 

Over the past thirty years, I have taken nearly a million pictures.   Many of them have been published in my books, in magazines, and seen in my exhibitions, but a majority have never been seen.  Here are a few of those unseen pictures.

 

Myanmar/Burma, 2011

 

 Burma, 2011

 

 

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2011

 

  

Tokyo, Japan, 2008

 

 

Day of Ashura, Afghanistan

 

 

France, 1989

 

Madrid, 1995

 

 

Rajasthan, India, 2010

 

 

Myanmar/Burma, 2011

 

 

Myanmar/Burma

 

 

Mumbai/Bombay, 2011

 

 

India

 

 

Chiang Mai, Thailand

 

 

Myanmar/Burma

 

 

India

 

Over the years I’ve come to see  that all of us are basically the same.  There are many more similarities that bind us than differences that separate us.

 

 

Yangon, Myanmar/Burma

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Fusion: The Synergy of Images and Words Part III

Herat, Afghanistan

For hundreds of years artists have tried to portray the relationship of a reader and his/her book.  We are familiar with words describing images, but not so familiar with images describing words and the impact that reading has on our lives.

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Kham, Tibet

Shwedagon Pagoda, Burma

“Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind; it forces you to stretch your own.”  – Charles Scribner

Old Delhi, India

Everywhere I go in the world, I see young and old, rich and poor, reading books. Whether readers are engaged in the sacred or the secular, they are, for a time, transported to  another world.

Varanasi, India

Kham, Tibet

The world’s largest book fair will be held in Frankfurt starting on October 6. Publishers, booksellers, agents, film producers,  authors, and journalists from all over the world will attend.  It is a privilege that my series of reading pictures will be projected during the opening press conference and featured in the daily publication, Publishing Perspectives.

Saõ Paolo, Brazil

Angkor Thom,  Angkor, Cambodia

Susan Sontag said, ”The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality…” The same can be said for reading books.

Bamiyan, Afghanistan

Yangon, Burma

Tokyo, Japan

Shanghai, China

“We read to know we’re not alone.”   – C.S. Lewis

Yemen

Nature’s Great Masterpiece

The relationship between elephants and people goes back millennia. Elephants have been an integral part of history, religion, art,  and culture in many parts of Asia.

Chiang Mai, Thailand

“Th’ unwieldy elephant, To make them mirth, us’d all his might, and wreathed. His lithe proboscis.”
-John Milton, Paradise Lost

Chiang Mai, Thailand

Kerala, India

Elephants have been important in both Hinduism and Buddhism. Ganesh, the Hindu elephant God, is worshipped as the lord of success, education,  knowledge, wisdom and wealth.

Mumbai, India

Angkor Thom, Cambodia

John Kistler’s book, War Elephants,  pointed out that for over a thousand years, generals used elephants as tanks, bulldozers, and cargo trucks long before such vehicles existed. Elephants built roads, swung swords, and terrified opposing forces.

Burma/Myanmar

Burma/Myanmar

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka

Aristotle called the elephant  “the beast which passeth all others in wit and mind.”

India

“Nature’s great masterpiece, an elephant – the only harmless great thing.”

-John Donne (English poet, 1572-1631)

Calcutta, India

Varanasi, India

Unpublished, Unseen 2010

Varanasi, India, 2010

 

Over the past thirty years, I have taken nearly a million pictures.   Many of them have been published in my books, in magazines, and seen in my exhibitions, but a majority have never been seen.  Here are a few of those unseen pictures that I have taken in the past few months.

India, 2010

 

Mandalay, Burma 2010

Burma 2010

Mandalay, Burma, February, 2010

Burma, 2010

 

Burma, 2010

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2010

Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2010