Aroon Thaewchatturat

Photographer

Ethnobotanist

www.aroonthaew.com

While pursuing a career in ethnobotany - living and working with some of South East Asia's most remote and traditional societies - Aroon Thaewchatturat began to document and photograph endangered cultures. Her work with the Moken sea gypsies of Thailand led her to complete an MSc and gave Aroon an opportunity to publish her images of the last nomadic hunter gatherers in the region with GEO Magazine, The British Library, LIFESTYLE+TRAVEL and many other publications around the world.Since then Aroon has been shooting travel features, coronations and killer waves for various magazines and her agency On Asia Images Photography. (www.onasia.com).

Peter Myers - LIFESTYLE+TRAVEL

A Panorama Bildband by photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat and writer Tom Vater documenting the lives of the hill tribes and sea nomads in Thailand was published in November 2006 by Reise Know How in Germany. This 120 page, full color title is available at book shops in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, the Netherlands and Belgium.

A Panorama Bildband by photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat and writer Tom Vater presenting Rajasthan's magnificent and magnificently eccentric princely palace hotels will be published in May 2007 by Reise Know How in Germany.

Aroon Thaewchatturat's images have also appeared in UNESCO publications, guide books by German publisher Reise Know How as well as Lonely Planet, The Wall Street Journal (USA), The Far Eastern Economic Review (HK), The International Herald Tribune, The Times (UK), Horizons (UK), Asia & Away (China), Fah Thai, Verve Magazine (HK), The Nation (Thailand) and many other publications.

Aroon Thaewchatturat is a regular contributor to Farang Untamed Travel magazine and LIFESTYLE+TRAVEL in Thailand.

Aroon Thaewchatturat's work as ethnobotanist also continues. After working as researcher for a British Library CD on the Moken sea gypsies' music and a stint as associate producer for a CBS 60 Minutes report on the Moken ('The Moken and the Wave'), which earned her an Emmy, she is currently preparing a book on plant use amongst the sea gypsies in Thailand.