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Airports in Ko Samui, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Siem Reap and Phnom Penh all continue to stock Sacred Skin prominently. The first illustrated Sak Yant book in English featuring detailed portraits of masters and devotees paired with an insightful text. Described in TIME as a book that “… will further popularize a centuries-old tradition.” Sacred tattoos, […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a first preview of the cover of my forthcoming guide to Angkor Wat, including Siem Reap, Battambang and Phnom Penh, published by Moon Books in the US in November 2012. It’s been a great project to work on and I am just dealing with the final edits for the book. Photographs will be supplied […]
Continue ReadingMy story on Phnom Penh’s cultural revival is published in this month’s edition of Bangkok 101, the Thai capital’s best known English language magazine. The story ran last month in The Guardian. Photographs by Conor Wall.
Continue ReadingI published a piece on Phnom Penh’s current cultural revival in The Guardian last week. “Welcome to the Penh my friend, big city in the kingdom of wonder, where all the streets are numbered and when it rains it thunders, them smiles stay infectious, chaps asleep in their cyclos or pushing a Lexus.” Thus rhymes […]
Continue ReadingSacred Skin, my book on Thailand’s sacred tattoos, for sale at Phnom Penh Airport, Monument Books. But who’s the dodgy looking guy on the left?
Continue ReadingOn a recent trip to Cambodia, I noticed that my first non fiction book Beyond the Pancake Trench is still being sold as a bootleg photocopy in Siem Reap bookshops. I was browsing the shelves of a pirate DVD shop in Phnom Penh a couple days ago, when I found, much to my surprise, that […]
Continue ReadingSacred Skin, my new book on Thailand´s sacred tattoos, Sak Yant, is now available at Phnom Penh Airport in Cambodia, courtesy of Monument Books who took a few boxes of Sacred Skin off our hands. Photograph by Kraig Lieb.
Continue ReadingExtraordinary songster, Canadian national treasure and godfather of pessimism, Leonard Cohen, was due to play a live show at the Olympic Stadium in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on November 27th. The show, his last before returning to the US on his current world tour, has been canceled. The Mekong Sessions, local promoters for the concert, announced […]
Continue ReadingThe UN tribunal in Cambodia, set up to investigate crimes against humanity allegedly (a very small allegedly, the accused are all guilty) committed by the Khmer Rouge, finally passed its first judgment today. The Khmer Rouge, a radical communist rebel movement, are responsible for the death of some 1.7 million people. Between 1975 and 1979, […]
Continue ReadingLate Night Party Dog circles the Independence Monument in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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