Unpublished, Unseen VI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

Unseen, Unpublished Portraits

 

  Chad

 

 

“A true portrait should today and a hundred years from today, be the testimony of how this person
looked and what kind of human being he or she was.”
– Philippe Halsman

 

 

 

 

Tibet

 

 

As human beings we are fascinated with each other and how we look. Diane Arbus talked about the gap between intention and effect as revealed in portraiture. People put on make-up and adorn themselves because they want to create an effect and give a certain impression, but often other people look at them and say it’s tragic or comical or curious or funny or odd.  Portraiture can be that kind of sharp critique.

 

 

 

Marrakech, Morocco

 

 

Tibet

 

 

Most of my portraits are not formal situations; they are found situations.

 

 

 

Tibet

 

We go to another culture to observe how other people live. Sometimes you look at somebody and they have a strong presence, a look, a certain kind of attribute that comes out in the face.

 

 

 

Cambodia

 

 

 

 

India

 

 

 

 

Burma/Myanmar

 

 

A good portrait is one that says something about the person.  We usually see parts of ourselves in others, so the good portrait should also say something about the human condition.

 

 

 

Kunduz, Afghanistan

 

 

 

Kabul, Afghanistan

 

 

 

Mumbai, India

Unpublished, Unseen 4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

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Unpublished, Unseen 3

Shwedagon Pagoda, Yangon, Burma, 2010

 

So many of you have told me that you enjoy seeing the unpublished work, that I will try to put up previously unseen material more often. Thanks for looking at my blog.

Best,
Steve

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

Unseen, Unpublished Redux

Over the years I have shot close to a million pictures.  Many of them have been published in my books, in magazines, and seen in my exhibitions and on my website. Most have never been seen.  Here are a few of those pictures.

Cambodia, Angkor Wat, 1999

 

Tibet, 2008

 

Tibet, 2001

 

Violinist in an outdoor market, Morocco,1988

 

Morocco, 1988

 

Nomad, Kham, Tibet, 2004

 

Jodhpur, India, 1996

 

Kashmir, 1998

 

Yemen, 1997

 

Tibet, 2001