Julian Chichester is a London based barrister who has been travelling the world, and photographing it, for 35 years. In that time he has visited some seventy countries spread across four continents.

"Apart from the sheer exhilarating joy of it, what interests me most about my travels is attempting to understand and appreciate the continuing diversity of different cultures despite the superficially homogenising effect produced by global consumerism: the Coca Cola truck is delivering to the Guatemalan village, but in the trees on top of an overgrown temple mound a few hundred yards away villagers are placing offerings before a twelve hundred year old statue of a Mayan god.

In my photographs I attempt to capture images which convey a sense of that diversity, but if that fails, I am still satisfied if the viewer looks at the picture and says: 'That is beautiful'."