Faces of Asia

Asia is a crazy variety of colors, culture, religion, flora and fauna. And it seems that photographer Maxim Russian is in love with this place without looking back. And with love and attention, he looks through his lens at such different and expressive faces of Asia.

Author: Maxim Russian

Asia-for most people in developed countries, Asia is associated with dirt, poverty, terrible diseases, all kinds of insects and reptiles, in general, there is little pleasant. But at the same time, few people understand that no developed country can compare with the psychedelic reality that you plunge into when you arrive in Asia. Every day spent in Asia sweeps by at an insane speed, leaving a storm of uncontrolled emotions in your memories, which you will be ready to tell your friends about excitedly. Asia is a crazy variety of colors, culture, religion, flora and fauna.

Many people ask me – why are you going to India again, you've already been there 4 times? At the same time, many people do not even understand that just arriving in another city you plunge into a completely different story, and arriving in another state you get to another planet… Special attention should be paid to the faces-the Faces of Asia.

1. A teacher who came with his students to the temple of Mother Buddha – Maya Devi (Lumbini/Nepal)

2. Representative of the Aghori Ascetic Religious School (Allahabad, India)

3. Miner before work (Fontiu/Laos)

4. Gathering people near the funeral ghat (Ichangu Narayan, Nepal)

5. Seller of rice cakes on the border with Pakistan (Kashmir, India)

6. Banana seller in the foothills of the Golden Stone (Mun State, Burma)

7. The hostess of the house, sheltered for the night in the mountains (Ladakh, India)

8. A local village teacher at a school (Central Laos)

9. A resident of the northern part of Vietnam (Khao Ban, Vietnam)

10. Shoe Cleaner (Delhi, India)

11. Headscarf saleswoman in the village of Karen (Ban Nai, Thailand)

12. Mistress of the house in the kingdom of Mustang (Mustang, Nepal)

13. Pilgrim (Haridwar, India)

14. Priest of the Temple (Khajuraho, India)

15. Train Driver (Yangon, Burma)

16. Homeless (Ut Yan, Cambodia)

17. Mistress of the House (Rajasthan, India)

18. A girl in a restaurant (Dhaka, Bangladesh)

19. Bank Security Guard (Kashmir, India)

20. A beggar near the temple (Nepal)

21. Ice Cream Vendor (Delhi, India)

22. Pilgrim (Varanasi, India)