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ONE-WAY TRIP TO ORIENT

Bewitching landscapes, perfumed scents, and the traditions of a bygone age: let yourself be enchanted by an entrancing journey through this selection of photographs and discover the most beautiful pearls of Asia in a riot of colours and scents, guided by our photographers Matthieu Ricard, Pascal Mannaerts, and Tuul and Bruno Morandi.

Matthieu Ricard

Spiritual Photographer

PEMAKO LE LIEU DISPOSE EN LOTUS VALLEE DE DEWIKOTA

NAMO BUDDHA

Buddhist monk and neurobiologist, Matthieu Ricard is also a photographer and author. He has shared the grandiose beauty of the Himalayan region with us for many years. Born in 1946, he travelled to India for the first time in 1967 and met on this occasion remarkable masters of the Buddhist Tibetan tradition. A life spent in this intimate space has allowed him to capture, through his lens, the masters, landscapes, and peoples of this isolated region of the world, and to paint a magnificent portrait of it. Matthieu Ricard is the author of many photographic books, including The Spirit of Tibet, Himalayan Buddhist, Tibet: Gazes of Compassion, Motionless Journey, and Monk Dancers of Tibet and Bhutan: Land of Serenity. His photographs have been exhibited in New York, Paris, Perpignan, Winterthur, Stockholm, and Hong Kong. ... See more See less

While Tibet is an inexhaustible source of wealth for Buddhist monks, it is also an inexhaustible source of beauty for photographers. Living in Tibet since 1972 and serving as a French interpreter to the Dalai Lama, Mathieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk and photographer. He combines the grandiose beauty of the Himalayas and a very special atmosphere in his photos, filling all those who contemplate them with a surprising sense of serenity.

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ISLANDE FJALLABAK NATURE RESERVE II

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Sables noirs, Islande

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Namo Buddha

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ISLANDE FJALLABAK NATURE RESERVE

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MOINE TIBETAIN EN MEDITATION

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Paro Taktsang

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PASCAL MANNAERTS

Traveller Photographer

SPLENDEUR DU LAC ATITLAN

SERENITE AU BAOLI DE BUNDI

VARANASI

Pascal Mannaerts was born in Brussels in 1978. He has been interested in travel and discovering new horizons since childhood and began his studies in law at the Université Libre de Bruxelles, which led him to work with refugees in Belgium. An artist from a very young age, it was on his first backpacker trips as a student that he truly discovered photography, which testified to the encounters and exchanges he experienced along the way. It served as a way for him to share his discoveries and immortalise them. In the year 2000, he went to India for the first time, with his first reflex camera. India triggered something inside him, and he was to return there again and again. After his studies, he embarked on his first year-long journey, through India and Southeast Asia. An inveterate backpacker, for over 15 years, he is a regular globetrotter, bringing back powerful images that people can identify with. His many journeys have also led him to Asia, Africa and Latin America, to the Maghreb and the Middle East. As a self-taught photographer, he mainly learned photography on the road, through his curiosity and taste for originality and spontaneity. His work reflects this desire for communion, a certain curiosity for life, an appetite for encounters and the magic binding it all together of his photos have been published by Géo, Lonely Planet, the Guide du Routard, the Maison des Indes and in several travel magazines in Europe. ... See more See less

In this series, Bernhard Hartmann concentrates on forgotten gardens and moves away from the sumptuous spectator-less interiors by revealing a world open to the sky. The melancholy images of Bernhard Hartmann come as a result of his frenetic, nearly obsessional, yet poetic research as he immortalises abandoned sites found during his travels . Here, nature retakes its hold little by little, invading the spaces which seem to have been forgotten by civilization. These spaces defy time, welcoming the silence that comes only after humanity has disappeared.

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Sri Lanka

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Varanasi

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SPLENDEUR DU LAC ATITLAN

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TUUL ET BRUNO MORANDI

A Shared Love of Travel

Fans of Asia, , Tuul and Bruno Morandi never tire of exploring the natural treasures of the continent.. Their favourite countries remain Nepal, where Bruno Morandi speaks the language, and Mongolia, where Tuul was born and where she loves to roam the immense steppes. However, the photographs that they create are not only invitations to travel, they also encourage us to meditate on the fragile beauty of our environment, whether it be human, natural, or cultural.

FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE

WOMEN IN THE STRAIRS II

About the artwork

Great fans of Asia, Tuul and Bruno Morandi explore exotic lands, testifying to the fragile beauty of our environment. After growing up on the Mongolian steppes, Tuul became a photojournalist and joined Bruno Morandi, an international reporter of Franco-Italian origins and former guide. The two photographers have travelled extensively together, capturing majestic landscapes. Woman on the Stairs II was taken in Jaipur, an old fortified city and the gateway to Rajasthan, which is nicknamed the pink city for the colour that unifies its architecture.

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WOMEN IN THE STAIRS 6

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MORNING IN BAGAN

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WOMEN IN THE STAIRS 4

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The Steppe Horsewoman

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FLIGHT OF THE EAGLE

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