Category: Burma
Burmese Light featured at Rolf Potts’ Vagablogging
Writer Marco Ferrarese interviews photographer Hans Kemp, with whom I have just published Burmese Light, a new illustrated book on Burma. Read the full interview on Rolf Potts‘ celebrated blog Vagablogging here. Burmese Light: Impressions of the Golden Land is a photographic introduction to Myanmar, the country behind the Bamboo Curtain. Stunning images by award-winning […]
Continue ReadingBurmese Light gets full page spread in The Bangkok Post
“A new book offers a visually stunning look at the cultural, geographic, archaeological and ethnic diversity and beauty of a country only now stepping out of the shadows.” writes Ezra Kyril Erker in a full page spread in this Sunday’s Bangkok Post. My new book, put together with photographer Hans Kemp is out now. Read […]
Continue ReadingNew Crime Wave Press Title: Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio Out Now!!!
After having one of our titles, Mindfulness and Murder in the Top 100 Crime novels on Amazon this week, Crime Wave Press introduces it’s latest thriller: Gaijin Cowgirl by Jame DiBiasio. Gaijin Cowgirl is a high octane adventure introducing Val Benson, flaky Tokyo hostess and utterly unreliable protagonist who stumbles across a map to one […]
Continue ReadingRiding the Crime Wave – CWP in ASIA LIFE Magazine
Everyone has a good book in them so they say, Asia’s first English-language crime publishing house looks set to put that adage to the test. Mark Bibby Jackson interviews me about all things Crime Wave Press in this month’s ASIA LIFE Magazine, both in the Thailand and Cambodia edition. I get to talk about crime […]
Continue ReadingBurmese Fairy Tales
Long time collaborator Marc Eberle and his co-director Maung Maung Tha Myint have just released the trailer for their forth-coming documentary Burmese Fairy Tales, a small person’s journey into a mysterious world where spirituality and sex meet. Nono, a gay, cross-dressing dwarf visits the ancient Taungbyone spirit festival near Mandalay where psychics of the “third […]
Continue ReadingPictures of Sittwe – Home of the Rohingya
I was in Sittwe, Rakhine State in Burma recently, the site of serious communal riots between Rakhine people and Muslim Rohingya who have been living in the state for generations and are currently the victims of a hate campaign instigated by politicians, ordinary people, Buddhist monks and government officials. I spent three weeks in Burma […]
Continue ReadingBurmese Days
Three weeks on the road in Burma, from north to south and back again. Early mornings and late nights, buses, boats, trishaws, motorbikes, bicycles and planes, virtually non-stop rain and lots of amazing conversations. Hardly a country but very much a state, the land between India and China is many things to different people – […]
Continue ReadingFreiheit in Burma – Marc Eberles neuer Kurzfilm fuer die ARD
Marc Eberle hat gerade einen neuen Kurzfilmbeitrag fuer die ARD in Rangoon gedreht. Vom 31. Dezember 2011 bis zum 4. Januar 2012 fand in der ehemaligen burmesischen Hauptstadt das erste Filmfest der Freiheit statt. Komiker Zaganar und Nobelpreisträgerin Aung Sang Suu Kyi haben diese erste von der burmesischen Regierung nicht zensierte Festival organisiert. Hier ist […]
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