Jerome Gence is a Paris-based photographer who has been published in National Geographic, Le Monde, and other magazines. He is also a Canon Ambassador but, surprisingly, does not have an Instagram or Facebook page because he dislikes (no pun intended) all social media. Gence grew up on the small Indian Ocean island of Reunion, 500 miles east of Madagascar, an overseas department of France with a population of less than one million. When at school, a visiting lecturer showed them photos of the Himalayas, his first experience with the outside world growing up. The next step was graduate school in...