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From: New Straits Times
Date: 20011031
Author:Eric Peris

Eric Peris
New Straits Times
10-31-2001
Remember This?
Byline: Eric Peris
Edition: The City Advertiser; 2*
Section: Books

TWO books that have had a great impact and influence on me, especially in my work in photography, are Rabindranath Tagore's Gitanjali and Ven Thich Nhat Hanh's Old Path White Clouds.

Gitanjali has a total of 103 verses. Tagore received the Nobel Prize for Literature (the first Asian to do so) for this work in 1913.
I first read the book in the early '60s. His use of nature to express his inner feeling led me to do an exhibition of black-and- white prints of selected verses ...

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