What is Expedition 2012?
Since 2004, Jason K Powers has visited North East India many times. His first trip in 2004 led him to the remote jungle villages of Meghalaya and Nagaland. According to one of those villages, his group was among the first foreigners to visit them since the late 1800’s!
By 2006, he co-founded the non-profit, North East India Project, which ran until mid-2010, helping tribal villages become more self-sustaining through means of healthcare, children’s education, water resource and economic development.
These years of working in the jungles only amplified his desire for adventure, exploration, documentary/ethnographic photography and his love for the people of N.E. India. He has been in 6 of the 7 north east States, but never was able to enter Arunachal Pradesh, until now.
Arunachal Pradesh is bordered on three sides by Bhutan, China/Tibet and Myanmar with the rest of India to the South. About ½ of Arunachal Pradesh is positioned in the Himalayan Mountains. The people range from Tibetic Buddhist tribes to animistic hill tribes and everything in between. There are so many isolated tribal peoples scattered throughout the state and this is what Jason is interested in documenting.
Jason’s desire has always been to go up to Arunachal Pradesh, into the tribal villages of the Himalayas and explore. There are many undocumented areas, many unseen faces, and so many untold stories in ‘the land of the rising sun.’ He intends to visit places unseen by foreigners, document through photography and writing, and show the rest of the world what a beautiful place this land is.
Where is India and the North East India?
Click here for a map – India | North East India
How can I help?
I’m glad you asked! Expedition 2012 will be broken down into two trips throughout the year. The first trip early in the year will be more a reconnaissance trip, gathering information, visiting some of the places, potentially making first contact and so forth. After this, Jason intends to come back the States, begin putting together a small team serving various purposes, and head back later in 2012. While the hopes are that funding will come through various sponsors, your help is still needed to get things rolling! Jason is offering various great photography products, and even tribal artifacts brought back from some of his trips to North East India. You can help by giving a gift or purchasing any of these products listed.
Items range from his newest book, One Man’s Road: A journey into North East India, to various framed photographs, prints, a Jordan photo calendar and so on. Please take a few moments to look around and see what you like! Supplies are limited so don’t wait long.
For those who contribute before January 15th, 2012, Jason will also send you two unique signed photographs taken during his first expedition trip to Arunachal Pradesh once he returns.
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EXPEDITION PRODUCTS!
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
Mark Twain
