Noritada Morita (ADB 1978–1997)
Ed: Morita-san is well-known to many as a former ADB project officer and senior staff member. He is also a gifted and avid photographer and musician. He is currently supporting and working with an NGO to assist children and communities in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic. This article features some of the images in a book of his photographs published in 2011, with funding from friends and proceeds going to charity.
Asian Eye is available from Asia Books, Ltd., 221 Sukhumvit Road, Klongtoey Nua, Wattana, Bangkok 10110 Thailand; e-mail: information@asiabooks. com; tel: (662)651-0429-30 Fax: (662) 2251-6042; website https://www.asiabooks.com/Book_Detail/9789743506772/ ASIAN-EYE. Shipping is free within Thailand. The book is published by the Mekong Organization for Mankind.
We are the guests on the earth, which invited us to live here.
The nature is our mother, which cuddles us in her arms.
Nature provides us with all we need…. soil, water, air, sunshine, food…… even happiness.
Nature teaches us lessons and uses hardships to make us find wisdom. Asian wisdom is based on tradition and emphasizes discipline, modesty and humility. Modesty provides a common home for Asia’s diversified culture and ensures peace in the community.
Culture is our shelter and the children are our hope. They are our friends too, main actors in our community and the playground of our lives.
I visited Asian countries over the last 37 years. The hopes and aspirations shared by my friends in governments and the smells of farms and villages have put my eyes on the same level as their own. These were the source of my energy.
Asia has given me many friends.
My friends extended their warm hands to me. They offered me a place to live.
We shared wonderful and exciting times together.
The pictures shown [in the Asian Eye] are part of my memories of the Asian community that I have come to know and admire.
