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Jason with the two things he loves the most.
"The first time I went to India I ended up floating in the warm waters of the Indian Ocean facing the palm groves and mountains and wondered how you could ever have a job that would enable you to spend most of your time in places as beautiful and peaceful.....On my thirtieth birthday I sold my Landrover and bought a camera and a ticket to India . By this time I had nothing to lose and nothing left to sell. It's been eight years now and it's been a long and hard journey but I never felt I had made a mistake and never looked back to where I could have been."
Jason worked in numerous jobs in the UK - carpenter, builder, landscape gardener, estate agent. He finally traded in his life in Britain for one in India where he now lives. He's a photographer who tries to make a difference. In addition to working on education, HIV and environmental projects, he is currently exploring remote tribes on the hillsides of Orissa. Here he experiences the impact of unwanted, and often illegal, industrialisation. See his work at www.orissa-dev.org.
"I'm not here for the money," he says, "I'm doing it because I'm passionate and because I care about what I do." |
