Julian Bound

Born in England, Julian Bound 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 in the international press. His work focuses on the social documentary of world culture, religion and traditions.

Living in Asia and South East Asia for over a decade, Julian travelled extensively throughout Tibet between the years of 2004 and 2014. Having lived in Dharamsala, India and Kathmandu, Nepal for four years, he studied meditation under the tuition of the Buddhist monks of Tibet and Northern Thailand and the spiritual teachers of India’s Himalaya region.

His previous work has included documenting the soldiers of the Burmese Karen National Liberation Army, the Arab spring of 2011, Cairo, Egypt, and the Thailand political uprisings of 2009 and 2014 in Bangkok.

With portraiture of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Julian has photographed the Tibetan refugee camps of Nepal and India. His other projects include the gypsies of Rajasthan, the Dharavi slums of Mumbai, 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.

The author of novels ‘By Way of The Sea’, ‘The Geisha and The Monk’, ‘Subway of Light’ and ‘Life’s Heart Eternal’, Julian also publishes photography books featuring documentary work encountered in Asia and the portraiture of ethnic groups and minorities.

CONTACT: julian_bound@hotmail.com

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