French colony – Tom Vater

Little Europe – The proto-colonies of West Bengal in The Nikkei Asian Review

January 7, 2018January 7, 2018tomLeave a Comment

Last story of 2017, first story of 2018, with Laure Siegel. The show stays on the road and the road takes me wherever. Home is anywhere I lay my head. In this instance, north of Kolkata, the world’s most beautiful city, along the banks for the river Hooghly. Really enjoyed researching this one and am […]

Kep – Cambodia´s Seaside Revival – in The Asia Wall Street Journal

July 2, 2010July 2, 2010tomLeave a Comment

Together with photographer Luke Duggleby, I visited Kep, a small town on Cambodia´s south eastern coast. First populated by French colonial administrators at the beginning of the 20th century, Kep became something like Cambodia´s St. Tropez in the 1960s, with rock bands playing on the beach and King Norodom Sihanouk cavorting and partying as if […]