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Tom Vater's stories on the net...
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Bokor Palace Casino – Cambodia’s equivalent of the Overlook Hotel The Rickshaw Pullers of Calcutta The Giant Car Festival in Puri, India Tombraiders - Plunder of prehistoric artefacts in Cambodia Cambodian hilltribes on the margins |
Read an interview with Tom Vater in The Statesman, India/September 2006
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art & Culture
| Website of Thai photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat - Features from around South Asia Website of the excellent and irreverent Thailand based travel magazine Untamed Travel. Visit to see some of photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat's images (Type ath0* into the site's search engine). This Asia-based photo agency offers tens of thousands of excellent images from Asia. |
One of Asia's best independent publishers offers hundreds of non fiction titles on the region, including Tom Vater's Beyond the Pancake Trench. This excellent site is home to The Andaman Association and provides an enormous wealth of information of the Andaman Islands, a remote archipelago in the Bay of Bengal. A treasure trove of far eastern art available in the UK. Amazing selection of artefacts. Company does road shows, so check for dates on website. 365 Days Around the World - An Austrian Traveler's Roadtrip - Great looking Website. |
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Excellent alt. culture/politics online magazine from the UK. Updated monthly. Way out, radical graphical illustrator Excellent and exhaustive website of London's only truly independent gallery cum cultural centre/cinema/member's club.
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The Boyfriends are a classically English, warmly emotional, melancholic yet noisy guitar group who've been cutting a swathe through the UK indie circuit for the last year and a half...says the website. It's true. Every day Rocknroll is saving my life. ...early-Kraftwerkian electronics, John Fahey-esque acoustic guitar picking, Jimi Hendrix-like electric distortion and Morricone-ish flourishes.. says the website. It's true. |
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Books by Tom Vater
Check out photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat's new website for images from South Asia and beyond.
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Text: © Tom Vater 2001-2008; Images: © Tom Vater/Aroon Thaewchatturat 2001-2008, unless stated otherwise.