About the Author

Jaroslav Poncar was born in Prague in 1945 and has lived in Koln since 1973 where he was Professor of Imaging Sciences at Fachhochschule Koln (University of Applied Sciences). His photographic projects took him to Africa, Arabia and to Asia, especially to the Himalayas, Tibet, India and Cambodia. In 1976 he was the first to take a panoramic camera to the Western Himalayas - the antique Russian FT-2 - and since that time he has specialised on panoramic photography. He was the first westerner to cross Tibet from West to East. His best known works are his panoramas of Tibet, the mural paintings of Alchi, Ladakh (India), and in Southeast Asia the complete reliefs of Angkor Wat. He has many published books