John Thompson is a Scotsman who were among the first pioneers to sail to the far east. He documented his adventures to this new foreign culture with photography. He documented people, artefacts and landscape of the eastern culture. He documented their lives and the way they lived as during that time the lives of people were alien to the western world. His documentation and photojournalism of the eastern world shaped the perception of western society. He visited Singapore, Malaya, Sumatra, Ceylon, India, Bangkok, Cambodia, Vietnam and He is most famous for visiting China. John enlightened the opinions and stigmas the people of Victorian England had of Asia.
John Thompson is an inspiration to me as he teaches me to visit places unknown and foreign to us. To also visit areas that are outside our comfort zones, we don't know how our pictures would impact people or even shape society. We should always try to document things that people are unaware of or things that are often overlooked.
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