Look and Listen

Biography

In 2006, photojournalist Tom Carter embarked on a historic, 2-year journey that would take him throughout the 33 provinces of China, making him one of the first foreigners in China’s 5,000 year history to do so. From the Yellow Sea to the Himalayas, Tom visited well over 200 cities and villages in a determination to understand, and thoroughly record, life and humanity in today’s People’s Republic. This definitive volume of street photography, entitled ‘CHINA: Portrait of a People,’ is the most comprehensive collection of imagery of contemporary China ever published by a single author.

Inspiration

Two authors that have influenced my writing and travels are Jack Kerouac, who wrote the seminal On The Road, a result of 7 years of wandering during the 1950s. Even more inspirational to me is a less-celebrated historical-fiction author named Gary Jennings, who penned the epic, 800-page monster titled Aztec; Jennings traveled around Mexico for over a decade to research this book. His second novel, the equally-long and ambitious The Journeyer, retraces Marco Polo’s adventures across Asia and into China.