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Asia - always say yes to life
never no


Travel story about seven Asian cities. Taipei, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpr, Siem Reap (Angkor), Luang Prabang, Bangkok

Texts and photos: François Maher Presley
July 2016, A5 portrait, hardcover, 272 pages,
approx. 350 images
Price: 14.80 EUR | Order
About the book and photography

The oblique one Incidentally, the view corresponds completely to our normal way of seeing, if we do not use the common "panoramic view", which is based on our eye level, but look very steeply upwards. Otherwise a stiff neck would quickly set in. The criticism of your oblique image details is based only on the aesthetic standard of a conventional panel painting. In any case, I find your waterfall view very convincing and impressive.
August Ohm, painter
Mirror Presley's photos reflect his eventful life and experience in many places around the world in an individual way.
Bernhard G. Lehmann, painter and sculptor
That kind, absolutely Photographing new, unusual and also strange is eye-catching and lets gloomy rows of houses, whether old or new, appear in a new light. You have to think and look closely - and there you discover some things that you would not otherwise record so precisely. Iris Rousseau, sculptor
Written very charmingly. Despite all the admiration or devotion for the diverse cultural impressions in the countries visited, the author does not stand still - like many cult (o) urists at "sublime looking" and tasting the exotic - but also sees the foreign worlds quite socially critical, sometimes sharp, Contrasting against other illustrated books that echo mainstream taste as well as the German romanticism of the petty bourgeoisie, but not at all polemical. That calls for closer employment.
Dr. Mathias H. Rauert, author and publisher

'Got me one Quite a while with the wonderful book by Presley before I unfortunately had to wrap it up. I'm torn, uniquely beautiful photos, wonderful texts about his experiences there as if the reader were there himself. Presley is a first-rate author and photographer - critical - flattering - sublime - he knows how to take the reader into a strange world - into the world that could almost be his. His photo art from a completely different point of view (oblique) are not normal, they are special and unique. I would be highly fascinated by his work as an author and his photographic art.
Barbara Gäde, Kiel
Opinions

Also a jewel of photographic art
This travel story through seven Asian cities, some of which are familiar by name, is like the foreword in a book, the preliminary journey to one's own, perhaps planned or already organized. In any case, this book of language and photo art changes our previous ideas of this strange world, even if we have already been there. The author's critical look at socially or humanistically memorable circumstances, which he illuminates in a well-founded manner, is not only informative in addition to the experience, but weaves into a complementary, coherent consideration of the places visited, which he tries to track down. And he succeeds as far as this inexhaustible reservoir of foreign culture lets him in, receives, greets and takes him by the hand. With his extraordinary photo impressions, François Maher Presley also invites us to look at the world from a different angle and to turn everything upside down that we have previously perceived as valid and existing. We are happy to break all the chains in order to give a new perspective to this continent, this culture, cities like Shanghai, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur or Bangkok through the yes to life. Each photo is also immersed in a dialogue with its opposite, and rewards us with our own journey of discovery. A travel book, an adventure book, a lingering book, a philosophical consideration of the moments that evoke a deep delight and let us lavishly indulge in the subject.
Verena Lüthje, blogger, Kiel
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