Mae Tao Clinic need your help!
After spending around a week at the clinic it was clear to me how vital the clinic is, not just the people of Mae Sot, but to the people of Myanmar aswell. Whilst in Myanmar I met people all over the country who held Dr Cynthia in the highest of respect. The clinic provides healthcare to over 110,000 people [...]
Young Street Girl
Following on from my earlier post about the Muslim Street Girl, this portrait was shot at the same location in Mae Sot. It is difficult to make out on this small sized image but on the full size image the tear on the girl’s right eye is much more prominent. For me the tear in the [...]
Muslim Street Girl
Sadly I’m coming to the last few days of my 6 weeks in Thailand shooting my short documentary film ‘Forgotten borders’. The last few weeks have been life changing, eye opening and every other cliché you can think of. I have seen somethings that are beyond belief, heard stories I wouldn’t even want to read [...]
Travel Packing List
Everybody knows the nightmare of packing for any trip. I was exactly the same when packing for my current 4.5 month trip to SE Asia. It’s the balance of taking everything and packing ultralight. After 2 months on the road there is a few things I would have taken out and a few things I [...]
Rest in Peace
I know your heart feels empty The pain seems hard to bear I know how much you miss me And wish that I was still there But don’t be sad without me I don’t want you to cry I never really left you And we never said goodbye My body wouldn’t let me Do the [...]
Sangkhlaburi and Forgotten Borders
I feel like I have neglected the blog a little bit over the past week. It’s not a case of not having anything to update, or even not being able to update its a case of what to update! Over the last week I have been starting work on my documentary project Forgotten Borders. The [...]
The Art of Packing – The Backpacking Photographer
I’m not going to lie, travelling extremely light for me is a near impossibility with a decent set of camera gear, however I see packing as a compromise. My aim when packing for this trip was to keep the weight to an absolute minimum for my ‘non-camera’ gear and tripod. This includes items like clothes, [...]
Karen Girl: Re-Working an Old Shot II
Due to the fact that I have invested in a new Toshiba laptop for use when I’m traveling (2.6ghz i5, 8gb ram, 500gb HD, less than 1.4kg), I have been sifting through some shots I had sitting around on my old laptop. I find that coming back to an image 5-6 months later without the emotional attachment, [...]
5000 Circles – Google+
Okay so yesterday I hit a milestone! I am currently sitting nicely on exactly 5000 people circling me on Google+. A number I wouldn’t have even comprehended when I joined this site. I have made many new friends, opened many new doors, had the amazing opportunity to get published in two books, been inspired to [...]
The Detrimental Effect of Tourism
I would love to hear your views on this. In the summer I spent time working on a small project around the Thai-Burmese border town of Sangkhlaburi. Whilst our group were in Sangkhlaburi, we were invited by a teacher at the school to go and visit a small village about 1.5hrs drive by 4×4 into [...]