Tom Vater’s portrait of master architect Vann Molyvann in the Asia Wall Street Journal

The Asia Wall Street Journal published my portrait of master architect Vann Molyvann, the creator of Cambodia’s New Khmer Architecture in the 1950s, as a cover story in its weekend edition. In the years after Cambodia won independence from France in 1953, Mr. Molyvann, a student of Le Corbusier, set out under the tutelage of […]

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Tom Vaters Fotos bei AlamyTom Vater at Alamy

Ab sofort sind einige meiner Bilder, die während meiner Reisen für meine Reportagen, Bücher und Fernsehaufträge durch Südostasien während der letzten sechs Jahre entstanden sind, bei Alamy, der weltgrößten Fotoagentur zu präsentieren. In den nächsten Wochen werden weitere Bilder aus Kambodscha, Thailand und Laos erscheinen. Wer meine Bilder bei Alamy einsehen will, sollte einfach zu […]

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Where is Batman? – Bangkok under Siege

That’s what a policeman asked me and a friend, as we were photographing the medieval-looking barricades, constructed of sandbags, sharpened bamboo poles, barbed wire and car tires, which one has to pass to get into the Ratchaprasong area, Bangkok’s up-scale and shut down shopping district. It’s like stepping into another country, another world. Downtown Bangkok, […]

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From the Archives: The Water at the Center of the Universe – Lake Toba, Indonesia

Can you imagine it? A crystal-clear tropical lake, surrounded by volcanic mountain, dotted with immense waterfalls? A green, lush island the size of Singapore in its center, populated by an independent, happy-go-lucky indigenous community? An extensive yet underused tourist infrastructure for almost all tastes and budgets? No crowds? No curfews? No high-rise condos? In South […]

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