In Laos there are over 49 different ethnic groups, many with distinctly unique textile and handicraft traditions. Here, textiles are as integral to cultural identity as language…

12-seater plane, 5-hour off road truck ride and a river boat later, we are arrive in the village of Xiang Khouang…to deliver raw silk and complex textile designs for the talented women there.

For a few weeks out of the year, low caste men transform into gods...by way of mesmerizing trance dancing and opulent costumes.

In the Myanmar city of Mandalay, jade is big business. In fact, it’s the biggest jade market in the world.

Life in a day of riding a Burmese local train.

After US bombers destroyed her village in 1976, 11-year-old Kommaly Chanthavong walked for a month to the capital of Laos, carrying only her family’s generational knowledge of silk weaving. Now, she runs a successful textile cooperative supporting the livelihoods of over 3,000 members and their families.

Following in the footsteps of the 14th Dalai Lama more than 150,000 Tibetan refugees have fled to India during the past 50 years fleeing ethnic and religious persecution from the People’s Liberation Army of China - many trekking through the treacherous Himalayas to escape.

The vastness and openness of the isolated high desert environment of Ladakh inevitably reflects the state of mind of the people there.

An ode to Indian food consumption. (Smartphone photos, mostly).

Looking for a free meal, place to stay and a shower? The Golden Temple’s got you covered.

Early morning meanderings at Mysore's famous Devaraja Market.

34 caves at Ellora. 29 at Ajanta. A mix of Buddhist, Hindu and Jain sites for spiritual and philosophical inquiry dug, chiseled, and carved into rock in the 2nd century BCE.

14th century grandeur surviving in stone. Hampi, the world's second-largest medieval-era city.

35mm, toy cameras, digital, double exposures, happy accidents.