Asiaviews republishes Sacred Skin review!
Regional news round-up publication AsiaViews republishes a great review by Ezra Kyrill Erker, of my new book Sacred Skin, which originally ran in the Bangkok Post in July 2011.
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Elizabeth Briel - Date with a Travel Artist!
It´s pretty rare my partner in crime, photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat and I open our home to show our work. But this Sunday, we had a great day having lunch and talking things Asian with American artist Elizabeth Briel who paints, photographs and works with paper, focusing on Asia.
Like me, Elizabeth is a committed transnational - [...]
Sacred Skin review in Asia Views!
The recent Bangkok Post review by Ezra Kyrill Erker of my new book Sacred Skin has been republished by Asia Views.
Check out the book’s official website!
Sacred Skin reviewed in The Bangkok Post
Sacred Skin is today’s cover story of The Bangkok Post’s Brunch Magazine.
Journalist Ezra Kyrill Erker writes that, “Aroon Thaewchatturat’s extraordinary pictures do more than capture the tattoos, they capture their wearers’ personalities, and perhaps even the energy invested in them by the designs.”
The four page spread also features an interview with photographer Aroon [...]
Tom Vater’s The Devil’s Road to Kathmandu - Bangkok Post Review
Bernhard Trink - The Bangkok Post
Global trekking across Asia is becoming increasingly difficult. War, terrorism, ever tighter Immigration rules are blocking the traditional land routes. And travel by plane doesn’t qualify as backpacking. Authors of wayfaring novels must set them years ago to make them plausible.
Which is what British freelance journalist Tom Vater does in [...]
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