"“Taj Mahal God Rays”" Photograph

Glen Allison is a photographic artist and author based in Bangkok, Thailand, working 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. These source images are layered digitally — dissolved into each other until the boundary between origin and invention becomes unanswerable. The result sits between photography and painting, document and disruption, street and studio. Not collage, which assembles. This work dissolves. Elements into elements. Images into images. Current collections include "graffi.KA" (Bangkok louvered facades and hand-drawn graphic layering), "street.TEXTILE" (Rajasthani textile geometry and street surfaces), "loco.MOTIF" (steam locomotive boiler plates composited with global textures), "JUXTA.posed" (unexpected object pairings from Asian street markets), "paper.STAIN" (coffee-stained paper with geometric overlay), and "oh.TALAT.noi" (Bangkok's oldest quarter compressed into abstract surface). Allison is also the author of "HIDDEN POWERS: How to Transcend Suffering," an award-winning self-development book that received five literary awards including a Nautilus silver medal — the same philosophical practice that informs the layered, quietly purposeful nature of the visual work. Fine art prints are available for architectural, commercial, hospitality, and residential interiors.