Jaroslav Poncar

JAROSLAV PONCAR was born in Prague in 1945. He now lives in Cologne, where since 1973 he has been Professor for Photo Engineering and Media Technology at the University of Applied Sciences. His countless, photographically motivated travels took him mostly to the Himalayas and Tibet, to Central Asia, India and Cambodia. Since 1976 he has developed an especial preference for panorama photography. In 1985, he was the first European to cross Tibet from East and West. The following year he spent many months with Tibetan nomads. As a member of the German Apsara Conservation Project, he is currently in charge of the truly comprehensive photographic documentation of Angkor Wat in Cambodia as part of the UNESCO program for the preservation of Angkor; his best photographs of this work are published in the picture book "Angkor". His picture volume "Tibet" - presenting Poncar's selection of black-and-white and color panorama shots from the "top of the world" is published in the EDITION PANORAMA BIBLIOTHEK. Moreover, we are showing his photographs of India in the book "India".