A spectacular photographer's daybook, in the tradition of Peter Beard,
Bill Burke, and Robert Frank, detailing the wanderlust of faraway travel
and profound discovery in a part of the world few desire to wander.
Asia Calling is longtime mid-east photographer Edward Grazda's art
journal recap of his decades traversing the globe during times of
immense social and cultural change in the Asian continent. Much like
Peter Beard and Bill Burke before, Grazda's journal entries and
diaristic graphics, along with his image manipulation and conceptual
positionings of his photographs and writings make this no mere photo
notebook, but rather an indelible stamp, a graphic passport if you will,
of people and places, frozen in time, but now alive with invigorating
juxtapositions and dynamic sequencing, a filmic recap of a place and
time long gone but still there.
Starting in 1980, Grazda traveled to Hong Kong, Thailand, Burma,
Vietnam, Laos, India, China, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. This was a time
of change in Asia-globalization, wars, drugs, tourism, and religion
remaking ethnic traditions and governments alike. Grazda's photos-with a
few fictional and literary texts-is your passport to that long time ago.