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Harvey Nichols Sales (3 new items)

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Extras (14 new items)

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Virgin stem cell research (1 new item)

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Organics (8 new items)

A quiet eye.

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In praise of the Himalayas (2 new items)

I have been in love with this part of the globe before I was able to comprehend any world beyond that of my family. My then infant brain was uninterested in her name, I knew she was far away by her creatures and costumes. While my brothers were captivated by Everest I was enchanted by her curious cows called yaks. The Himalayas smiled at me way back then and waited restlessly to become an important part of my future life. The mountain range stretch for 1,500 miles and spread in an arc over five countries. Bhutan, China, India, Nepal and Pakistan. Himalaya is her own space with its own people, squeezed uncomfortably between two global heavyweights itching to expand. Her people are independent, resourceful, devoted and totally enchanting. The passage of time in those ancient layers are a source of sheer joy. Silent prayers dissolve and are dispersed by the wind to fill all spaces. Her thin air takes a little time to adjust to, her roads can be terrifying, her weather extreme. This high altitude world evokes a bygone era of beaming smiles and genuine courtesy. Time expands to accommodate the gentle breeze of Buddhism as it permeates all spaces. A modest request to honour all life while accepting the wheel of karma as it filters through the universe. Ancient rituals and magnificent temples navigate her people to a smooth way of living. Devotion is a daily practice. Colour are saturated in an aura of fizzy light. Greasy reds, marigolds, saffrons and deep lacquer surfaces silently resting in prayer, adding credibility to the layers of shamanic stories of gods and demons. Traditional folkloric stories and high altitude dreams have a profound echo that ooze me back perennially.

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Karena (2 new items)

"I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer." — Irving Penn

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Raj (1 new item)

India is a country rich in fabulous history. Kings and kingdoms, mystics and followers, rebels and fighters, lovers and scandals have traversed the paths of its glorious past. Stories and legends bind her people and have shaped her culture and beliefs. View full story.

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The Big Blue (1 new item)

“Beyond the ocean lies everywhere.” — Albert Camus

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Himalayas (1 new item)

I have been in love with this part of the globe before I was able to comprehend any world beyond that of my family. My then infant brain was uninterested in her name, I knew she was far away by her creatures and costumes. View full story.

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Station to Station (1 new item)

As a seasoned guest in this marvellous Indian continent, I still find India a baffling and glorious enigma. India is as vast as it is crowded, as luxurious as it is squalid. Nothing is ever quite the way you expect it to be. What seems an illusion is reality and curiously intoxicating and toxic at the same time. Suffocating bureaucracy thrives and seems to have been a legacy of bygone times and the British in India. Common sense seems to be deficient, on the other hand bountiful portions of buffoonery and chaos thrive and miraculously get processed, detangle and transformed into a sense of order. Perhaps the most triumphant legacy from those "Rule Britannia" days has to be the remarkable railway network. Railways were first introduced to India in 1853. Once established they became a lifeline for trade, economy and people. Approximately 40,000 miles plus of tracks connect millions of lives. The railways traverse the length and width of this vast country bringing near the far. Whole communities live, work and love between the tracks. I have spent weeks in Indian railway stations over the years, endlessly waiting on platforms, feeling filthy, grumpy, dehydrated. Never far from the all pervasive fog of body odour artfully blended with alluring spices from the tiffin boxes and incense. This gallery records everyday life on the tracks in one station over a period of 7 weeks. I grew to love and admire this amazing community of people that dwell in and around this railway station. Sadly, In the last 10 years Indian railways have been digitally transformed and that magical sense of bygone transportation is fading fast.

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Conran (6 new items)

Conran, Simplicity remastered.

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