Thomas Kelly
Tibetan Tea Drinker

Native Graces

Thomas L. Kelly

Thomas Kelly has lived in Katmandu for over 25 years and offers frank and intimate portraits of Southeast Asia and tribal cultures around the world. He has researched and photographed 5 books based in South Asia and works avidly as a filmmaker and photo-activist, documenting the struggles of marginalized people and disappearing cultural traditions all over the world.

His exhibition Native Graces features a cross-section of his most popular collections including Sadhus: The Great Renouncers of India and Fallen Angels: Sex Workers of South Asia. The exhibition is available for travel Spring 2008.