There are no icebergs in the Gulf of Thailand, but at any given moment there is, in this and many other seas, someone thinking about the Titanic — or at least about Leonardo DiCaprio. I almost didn’t take this photograph. For most of three hours I had been lying on a bench on the ferry’s deck, […]
10 Photos: Town On The River Kwai (Kanchanaburi, Thailand)
“Sleep tight, dad. We won’t forget.” In Thailand’s Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, where 6,982 Allied prisoners of war are buried, one need look upon only a handful of graves – and the epitaphs left by loved ones – to recoil at the cost of war. I’m standing now over the grave of Sergeant S.T. Jephcote, who […]
A Person With Whom I May Be Sincere
I’ll always be grateful to a hotel receptionist named Chau, who one day in 2007 offered to get me out of Hoi An and into the homes of people in the surrounding countryside. On Chau’s day off, from the back of her motorbike, I watched the landscape whiz by as she drove us several miles […]
Mysterious Graffiti, and Death as a Lens through which We See
One side-effect of the George W. Bush presidency was that the walls of bathroom stalls in backpacker hangouts in cities such as Bangkok and San Jose were overflowing with handwritten opinions and jokes. The political graffiti his eight years in office produced was immense. The one-liners and paragraphs were seldom insightful, but never did I […]
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