Harry Fisch, polyglot and originally a lawyer and businessman, has been a photographer for more years than he cares to remember. He has photographically documented more than 27 countries through which he has traveled , concentrating since 2002, on Asia, especially Thailand, Cambodia, Laos, Vietnam, Nepal and India.

Winner of the 2012 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO CONTEST, and later disqualified, he has been selected in 2010 by Photoespaña—possibly the most prestigious Spanish photographic event—in the section “Discoveries” and his work has also been published in “La lettre de la photographie”, which was nominated best Blog of 2011 by the prestigious magazine LIFE.

His interest in the photography of localities and cultural realities has seen him travel through the Golden Triangle between Laos, Burma and Thailand, and to such unusual events as the camel fair of Pushkar in India, sleeping in tents near poorly known fairs and lost towns in India, visiting the famous temples of Bagan in Myanmar or spending days in the lost salt mines in the desert of the Kutch. He has been to better known destinations like the home of the Kayan tribes in Mae Hon Song in the north of Thailand and lesser known places like the remote Jainist temples of Shutrenhaya in Palitana, or even a Gurudwara Shij temple lost on the last town on the south-east border of India.

Interested in Asian cultures different to those he has known, the more he sees and experiences the more curious he has become. He endeavors to build relationships with the people of a place, sharing as far as possible, their daily existence,listening to the ups and downs of their lives. He plans the expeditions from this perspective, looking for different locations—sometimes a nearby residence, or attending an event, or accepting an invitation that can make that contact more real and personal. He designs everything by researching and incorporating experiences from new destinations and anecdotes originating from friendships that have developed along the way, and that have been consolidated over the years. He studies localities, cultural events and experiences of human interest and photographic value, all documented through expeditions of travelers and documentary makers.

After years of travelling, he has come to the conclusion that technique and vision are indispensable tools, but that empathy, curiosity, pleasure through personal relationships are the determinants which enable photography to transmit so much more than a post card.

2012.-

Winner of the 2012 NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC PHOTO CONTEST in the "People" category among 22.000 submissions from 150 countries, The picture was later disqualified. (see Harry Fisch Winner..)

2011.-

The series “Benarés the other side” selected by David Faheys for the french blog “La lettre de la Photographie”, BEST OF 2011 as per LIFE MAGAZINE.

2010.-

- Exhibition “El cuerpo, la carne y el alma”

Galeria Atelier, Venice

Modern Art Museum Munich

Contemporary Art Center, Coln

- Selected in Photoespaña. "Discoveries". Possibly the most important spanish contest. Selection made amongst 1.850 international sibmitions.

Judges : Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich. Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson,

The Hague Museum of Photography, La Haya. Yossi

Milo Gallery, Nueva York, Fundaçao Calouste Gubelkian, Lisboa, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Musée du Jeu de Paume, París,