Glen Allison

Glen Allison is a photographic artist and author based in Bangkok, Thailand, working extensively across Southeast Asia, India, and Nepal. Born in the United States and educated at the University of California, Berkeley (Architecture, 1969), he has spent more than five decades photographing the world — 110 countries, a perpetual nomad whose archive became the raw material for a fine art practice that began in earnest after 2008.

His commercial career established one of the most extensive travel photography archives in the industry: one of Getty Images' ten most published travel photographers, with over 100,000 images licensed worldwide across editorial, commercial, and institutional clients globally.

The fine art work is something different. Each collection in Allison's practice begins where most people stop looking — at the surfaces that don't volunteer what they hold. Urban facades in Bangkok. Industrial geometry in Talat Noi. Coffee-stained paper in a room above Lake Pichola. Steam locomotive boiler plates photographed on opposite sides of the globe. Tribal silver jewelry and hand-etched pocket knives at a Pushkar street stall. Tikka powder tins and geometric textiles from Rajasthani bazaars.

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Bachelor of Architecture, University of California, Berkeley

2023 Solo Exhibition - 333 Gallery - Bangkok, Thailand

2022 Solo Exhibition - Cotton Contemporary Art, Cyprus, Europe

2015 Solo Exhibition: Château Beaupré, Provence, France