After many years of slight technological delinquency, I’ve spruced up my existing website and brought it into something resembling a 21st Century site. Still the images and characters and tea embed every post; now though there is more written content on the expeditions, the people, and the motivations. The new site is still jefffuchs.com, though it has risen from its minimalist origins into something more alive and hopefully more vibrant. It now rests here. Gents like the below cheesemaker in Extremadura in Spain will be happy with the changes, and I hope you will as well.
My wife Julie gave the shove and assisted in the creation of a more expansive home for the work, which includes a blog page here.
All to say that there is a better home for some of those exquisite moments and visceral characters and journeys, that deserve as much. Look forward to your comments and thoughts on the new set up.
A better site is surely fitting for the nomadic matriarchs of Karnak
As always, stay well and get out there, wherever that ‘there’ might be.
About JeffFuchs
Having lived for a decade in Yunnan, Fuchs’ work has centred on indigenous mountain cultures, oral histories along with an obsessive interest in tea.
Fuchs is the author of 'The Ancient Tea Horse Road' (Viking-Penguin) and he was the subject of 'The Tea Explorer' documentary based on his exploration of the Tea Horse Road.
His photos and stories have appeared on three continents in publications such as Kyoto Journal, TRVL, and Outpost Magazine, as well as The Spanish Expedition Society, The Earth, Silkroad Foundation, The China Post Newspaper, The Toronto Star, The South China Morning Post, and UNESCO amongst others. Various pieces of his work are part of private collections in Europe, North America, and Asia. Fuchs served as Asian Editor at Large for five years at award-winning Outpost magazine.
Jeff has worked with schools and universities, giving talks on both the importance of oral traditions, tea and mountain cultures.
His recently released book ‘The Ancient Tea Horse Road’ (Penguin-Viking Publishers) details his 8-month groundbreaking journey traveling and chronicling one of the world’s great trade routes, The Tea Horse Road. Fuchs is the first westerner to have completed the entire route stretching almost six thousand kilometers through the Himalayas a dozen cultures.
Fuchs partnered with Wild China to create a journey along the Tea Horse Road which National Geographic Traveler called one of the "50 Trips of a Lifetime".
He is co-founder of Akahiao Nature Institute on the island of Hawai'i along with his wife, Julie Rogers.
Congrats for the new website! Would be great if you can activate a rss feed as same as you did in this website. It helps to get nortified of new updates. Greetings from Lhasa!
Thanks Alfonso and yes….going to get this rss feed up and running. Greetings to you and the heights.