When on the road with my camera, sometimes for months at a time, I often go to bed with the distinct feeling that I receive more than I give. I am a traveling photographer who focuses on people, which means I spend my days asking things of others. I ask for their permission, their time, […]
You Are Living Only Now, Now And Now And Now
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 […]
10 Photos: Thailand’s Famous (and Infamous) Full Moon Party
If you’ve ever backpacked in Southeast Asia or have undertaken casual research into the global party scene, you’re familiar with Thailand’s Full Moon Party. Whenever that lunar ball is all lit up in the heavens, alcohol and travelers wash ashore on Ko Phangan, an island in the Gulf of Thailand. My first experience at the […]