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Born in Hong Kong, Amar Grover has a particular affinity with the Far East and Indian subcontinent. A leading freelance writer and photographer, he has undertaken travel assignments for many UK broadsheet newspapers and magazines including the Financial Times, Independent on Sunday, Geographical, Conde Nast Traveller, Travel Africa, WEXAS Traveller and Country Life, as well as several books and guides.

He is particularly interested in fading modes of life, dwindling cultures and remote communities. This has taken him to the isolated Tibetan communities of Ladakh in India, the Kailash people of Chitral in Pakistan's Northwest Frontier Province, and the minority Dong and Miao peoples of southern China's Guizhou Province. Elsewhere he has photographed Hindu pilgrims bathing at Allahabad's sacred confluence of rivers during India's Kumbh Mela festival (the largest gathering of humankind), prehistoric rock art in the Libyan Sahara, and eco-trekking trails in northern Laos. Himalayan peoples and their valleys draw him back year after year. His photography is infused with a romantic view of the world and its people, and defined more by the convergence of form and colour rather than a gritty 'street-wise' approach.

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India, Rajasthan, Jaipur, Amber. A village woman gathers fodder on the crenellated walls surrounding Amber Fort.

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India, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Thiksey Monastery. Erected in 1970 to commemorate a visit by the 14th Dalai Lama, the 49ft tall statue of the Maitreya Buddha in the monastey's Maitreya Temple is the l...

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India, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Leh. Prayer flags strectch across stark ridges beside the Namgyal Tsemo and Tsemo Gonkhang temples high above Old Leh.

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India, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Thiksey. Each morning after sunrise monks blow conch horns, or dung-dkar, from the rooftop of Thiksey Monastery.

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India, Rajasthan, Jodhpur. Musicians at the Rajasthan International Folk Festival, perform in front of the Jaswant Thada, a memorial to Maharaja Jaswant Singh II.

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India, Rajasthan, Ajabgarh. A turbanned village man smokes a long pipe.

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India, Rajasthan, Nimaj, Chhatra Sagar. This unique hotel offers luxury tents atop a 19th-century dam built by Thakur Chhatra Singh

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India, West Bengal, Barrackpore, nr. Kolkata. A marble statue of Sir William Peel (third son of Sir Robert Peel) stands in the gardens of Flagstaff House in Barrackpore, one of several which were move...

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India, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Thiksey. Thiksey Monastery, or Gompa, is one of the region's largest and most famous monasteries.

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India, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh. A Ladakhi woman wears traditional clothes including a turquoise-studded headdress, or perak, and a ceremonial brocade mantle or shawl.

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India, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. A lobby alongside the main restaurants at the luxury Falaknuma Palace Hotel.

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India, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. The principal and once-grand staircase at the former British Residency in Hyderabad.

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India, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Thiksey. Spacious luxury tents at the Ultimate Travelling Camp offer unrivalled comfort in the Indus Valley.

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Myanmar, Burma, Mon State, Mt Kyaiktiyo. Mt Kyaiktiyo, or Golden Rock as it is popularly known, due to the continual application of gold leaf by male pilgrims, is one of Burma's most celebrated pilgri...

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India, Jammu & Kashmir, Kashmir, Srinagar. Kashmiri schoolboys are paddled across Srinagar's celebrated Dal Lake in a shikara - small wooden boats still widely used for transport and tourism.

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India, Arunachal Pradesh, Ziro Valley, near New Ziro. At Lempia a villager belonging to the Apatani tribe participates in traditional shamanic rituals. He wears a rudimentary rain hat surmounted with...

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India, Jammu & Kashmir, Ladakh, Chemrey. A monk strolls around a chorten near the 17th-century Chemrey Monastery, or gompa, which stands on a hill overlooking Chemrey village.

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Australia, Northern Territory, Arnhem Land, nr Mt Borradaile. Aboriginal rock art in 'Major Art' shelter

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Portugal, Lisbon. Backed by the Church of S�o Vicente de Fora, a statue of Lisbon's patron saint - Saint Vincent of Saragossa, or Saint Vincent of Fora, in the Alfama district.

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Ecuador, Cotopaxi, Latacunga. A young boy wears a clown mask as one of the characters in the 'Fiesta de la Mama Negro', a popular annual celebration in Latacunga that fuses indigenous Quechua and Hisp...

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France, Languedoc-Roussillon, Herault, Montpellier. The course libre is a bloodless spectacle in which the bullfighter attempts to snatch a rosette tied between the horns of a young bull.

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Myanmar, Burma, Sagaing Region, nr. Monywa. At Bodhi Tataung, a kind of Budhhist-themed complex with temples and monasteries, stands the Laykyun Setkyar Buddha, one of the world's largest statues.

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India, Rajasthan, Abhaneri. Originally excavated in the 9th century, Chand Baori (or Chand Stepwell) is among the largest and deepest such wells in Rajasthan

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Oman, Muscat Governate, Muscat. The main swimming pool of the Al Bustan Palace Hotel.

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Nepal, Himalaya, Mustang, Charang. A decorative chorten, or Buddhist shrine, marks the southern entrance to Charang village.

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India, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad. The Jade Room at the Falaknuma Palace Hotel.

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Saudi Arabia, Riyadh. Built in around 1865 and now much restored, Masmak Fort (or Qasr al-Masmak) is the capital's most important historical monument for it is here that Ibn Saud first attacked the ci...

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Loading water melons onto a barge on one of the canals in Shaoxing. The city is known for its canals and its rice wine.

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France, Centre, Indre-et-Loire, Chenonceaux. Built in the 1500s, Chateau de Chenonceau is one of the Loire's most celebrated chateaux. With its coffered ceiling, Flanders tapestries and Renaissance-st...