Category: History
I met my first talkative local wandering Osaka looking for the famous Umeda Sky building.
You can find a lot of dead sea creatures at Tsukiji Fish Market but you wont find much whale meat.
2015 led me back to Tokyo. This time I spent most of my time in the district of Sumida in Tokyo's Northeast.
The Nakagin Capsule Tower in Tokyo is a run-down testament to the ambition of some of Japan's most celebrated post-war architects.
The small coastal city of Joetsu on Japan's north coast highlights some of the problems facing modern Japan.
The National Library of China holds an artifact that represents what must be the most ambitious attempt to control information in history.
Beijing incorporates all of the contradictions of Chinese society.
Huashan is a mountain located about 120 kilometres east of Xi'an- China's old capital. It's home to some very dicey walking tracks, a really spectacular set of cable cars, a tea house perched on a cliff face and a photo studio with some genuine occupational health and safety issues.
The entry point for my brief tour of China was the southern Province of Sichuan-famed for its incredibly spicy food and baffling theatrical performances. I flew into the capital Chengdu at the start of October and explored the city between bouts of rain before venturing out into the nearby mountains.
Another bleary-eyed morning spent rock-hopping in the pre-dawn light to get to a vantage point before sunrise.
Across Europe and Russia you can find the remains of bunkers and air-raid shelters- a legacy of the Second World War and the Cold War that followed. In Cappadocia, in central Turkey, you can find much older and much more extensive underground shelters.
In the valleys of Cappadocia are hundreds of cave churches from the early years of Christianity.
On a cliff overlooking the small town of Cavusin a Turkish flag flies amidst the ruins of a village.
After the fall of Constantinople the two remaining Byzantine states- the Despotate of Morea and the Empire of Trebizond- came under renewed pressure.
In the mountains around Trabzon you can find fragments of an empire that traces its origins back to ancient Rome.
The previous set of photos was taken on Istiklal avenue approaching Taksim Square.
A series of images of the abandoned East German 'Spreepark' taken in May this year.
Some images of Berlin's controversial museum of near-eastern antiquities including the massive Pergamon Altar.
Photos taken at Berlin's Olympic Stadium- site of the infamous Nazi games of 1936.
No other place is so heavily freighted with history than the city of Berlin.
Images taken inside Notre Dame and the Cathedral of Saint Sulpice in Paris.