Oct 17
In last week’s Monday Memories post I mentioned that there were several other photos in my ‘finals’ folder that I had taken at the mass alms-giving that was Visakha Bucha Day. However, sometimes, when you have a specific layout for your photographs in mind, you can overlook other images that have just as much impact but didn’t …
Oct 10
When there are 12,600 Buddhist monks from southern Thailand in one street of Bangkok at once, where, as a photographer, do you start trying to document the mass alms-giving that was Visakha Bucha Day? Wide shot, mid shot, close-up. That’s what I was taught when studying filmmaking at university. And I think it holds true for …
Oct 04
The temple of Prasat Phanom Rung in Thailand’s Isaan region is stunning. Visiting the temple at dawn, when only the temple dogs are awake, is a sublime experience. When we visited a few months ago there had been overnight rain and the sky was quickly clearing. We took our time exploring and photographing the temple and it was more …
Sep 26
There are many in Thailand who believe that home-cooked Thai food is becoming a thing of the past. Pre-packaged curry pastes and even entire Thai dishes, traditionally a staple of a home cooked meal, now sit on supermarket shelves, ready for a Thai version of a TV dinner. Even street food is succumbing to short …
Sep 19
Monday Memories is a new series of posts where we publish one of the photos that we like to call a ‘memory shot’. It’s not necessarily the best photo in terms of technique of an experience on the road, but it’s the most emotive photo for us. We love eating street food on the footpaths …
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