Irreverent, informed and downright eclectic books and reportage from Southeast Asia and beyond
Check out the excellent photo essay Risky Bangkok by seminal Thai photographer Vinai Dithajohn.
Vinai Dithajohn is a Bangkok-based photojournalist covering news and documentary stories in Thailand and Southeast Asia for the past ten years. He has been shooting Thailand’s political turmoil as well as Bangkok’s dark underbelly and subcultures, often risking his life [...]
Photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat signs a copy of our new book Sacred Skin for Roland Neveu at a recent launch event at The Space in Bangkok.
Aroon Thaewchatturat and Tom Vater will present their new book Sacred Skin at Kinokunya Book Shop in Siam Paragon in Bangkok on July 1st at 5pm.
The authors will talk about Thailand´s sacred tattoos and sign copies of their book.
“Achan Thoy [pictured above] is a highly respected Dabot Ruesi, a hermit sage of Hindu origin, known as a Rishi or Yogi in India, a man with the power to apply sacred and magic tattoos to a devotee’s skin,” says ‘Sacred Skin’ author Tom Vator. “He is a sak yant tattoo master.”
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All the very best to our family, friends, readers, business partners, clients, publishers, editors, critics and detractors for 2011, the Year of the Rabbit.
Many thanks for your continued support and constructive criticism.
Tom Vater
Aroon Thaewchatturat
Visited the Les Rencontres monster photo exhibition in Arles. Some 60 exhibitions show a huge variety of photography from reportage to conceptual art and everything in between.
This years highlights, for me at least, included Taryn Simon from New York who shot a serious of stunning images called The Innocents, which document the stories of individuals [...]
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In July 2008, Aroon Thaewchatturat’s new photo book, Zur Quelle des Ganges (A Journey to the Source of the Ganges), was published by Reise Know How Verlag in Germany. It looks great. I wrote the text. The book is the result of three months travel through the central Indian Himalaya in 2007, on foot, by [...]
In August 2007, Aroon Thaewchatturat’s new photo book, Palace Hotels of Rajasthan, was published by Reise Know How Verlag in Germany. I wrote the text. The book covers all sorts of heritage hotels with royal connections around Rajasthan, from modest but attractive mansions to gigantic palaces, from pure, sumptuous Raj nostalgia to bottomless kitsch.