Category: Travel
June 28th, 2012 — 10:27am
One of the many things I love about my work is the contrast. Last week I was in rural Chiang Rai photographing rice planting, the next in a bustling metropolis. I’ve just returned from Shanghai. Although time was short I did manage to discover a few of the city’s more interesting areas and photograph its
June 18th, 2012 — 11:41am
I’ve just returned from four days in Phayao near Chiang Rai in northern Thailand where I was on a photo-assignment for an international grower and exporter of organic rice. With the rainy season in full swing, it’s time for farmers to uproot the seedlings from the nursery beds and replant in the flooded paddy fields.
June 12th, 2012 — 10:01am
It has been disturbing to witness what has happened to Angkor over the last few years. Even now with the rainy season in full swing visitor numbers are still high. As one hotelier said to me, ‘for the Chinese and Koreans there is no low season’. Nevertheless, the next month or two is without doubt
June 10th, 2012 — 7:58pm
Apsaras are alive and well in modern-day Cambodia and can often be seen posing for tourists at Angkor highlights, Angkor Wat and the Bayon. Even celestial nymphs need to earn a crust and charge tourists a dollar a pop to be snapped with them. It’s all very much part of the circus that Angkor has
June 10th, 2012 — 7:29pm
Visitors to Cambodia soon add a new word to their vocabulary – Apsara. Often appropriated as a name for resorts, travel companies, and restaurants, Apsaras are mythical female celestial dancers that graced the walls of Angkor-era temples as early as the 8th century AD. Scholars of Khmer art and archaeology often differentiate between the sensual
May 27th, 2012 — 11:40am
Despite being based in Bangkok, I rarely find time to photograph the city. That has got to change as I recently signed a contract to do a book on the magical metropolis, know to locals as Krung Thep. With the deadline clearly visible on the not too distant horizon, I forced myself away from the
May 18th, 2012 — 4:49pm
Here’s a bit of good news if you are Dutch or can read the language, ‘Enchanting Thailand’ or rather ‘Betoverend Thailand’ has just been launched in Holland. The hardback book has been released by my publisher, John Beaufoy in association with Atrium and in keeping with other books in the series features an informative text providing
May 3rd, 2012 — 4:21pm
I’m travelling back from the UK today after my first visit in almost four years. I’ve been here catching up with friends, drinking the best beer in the world, and attending the ‘Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year’ exhibition as one of the finalists. The image below was selected in the final seven for
April 18th, 2012 — 6:03pm
While in Phnom Penh I stayed just around the corner from the Monument of Independence. Flight delays meant that I arrived just as the light was starting to fade. I checked in, threw my bag on the bed and dashed out to take advantage of the ‘blue hour’. I was just in time to catch a couple
April 18th, 2012 — 5:31pm
On a recent trip to Phnom Penh, the capital of Cambodia, I spent a couple of mornings at a school that teaches youngsters the art of classical Khmer dance. Watching the elegant teacher instruct the children was an experience I found much interesting than seeing an actual performance. During the Khmer Rouge years, the brutal
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