Photographic Projects
Photography was one of my first loves and has always been an important way of me seeing, exploring and interacting with the world.
Lightning flashes over the Karen hills where a 6 km length highway connects Mae Sot to a bridge over the Burmese town Myawaddy. For years people fleeing conflict and dictatorship in Burma headed to Mae Sot.
A picture of Aung San Suu Kyi has been put up to welcome her visit to the Ma La camp. Mae La is the largest of nine refugee camps on the Thai- Burma border, home to around 100,000 refugees.
Friends playing football after work
Lightning flashes over the Karen hills where a 6 km length highway connects Mae Sot to a bridge over the Burmese town Myawaddy. For years people fleeing conflict and dictatorship in Burma headed to Mae Sot.
Borderland
My long term personal project to document Myanmar's borderlands. It represents my ongoing attempt to document life along the Thai-Burma border. Started in 2011 as a personal project it seeks to weave the well-known aspects of life along the border, the refugee camps and conflict, into a wider tapestry of context.
A country's
beating heart
The Tonle Sap, Southeast Asia's largest freshwater lake, is currently facing a crisis as fish stocks continue to dwindle. This has forced villagers who have lived in traditional floating houses to consider leaving their tradional ways of life.
Dragon Race
Cambodia's three-day water festival sees over a million visitors flock to the capital. The highlight of the festival is the dragon boat races held in front of the Royal Palace
A new Start
Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) won a landslide victory in historic national election the brought 50 years of rule by the Myanmar army to an end.
By the time the rubbish reaches the dump outside Mae Sot it has often been picked through 4 or 5 times along the way
People hire carts and sift through rubbish bins to sell to the recycle canter. For woman looking after small children it’s a way of generating income without being separated from them
A community of around 80 families live on the rubbish dump site
By the time the rubbish reaches the dump outside Mae Sot it has often been picked through 4 or 5 times along the way
A Load of Rubbish
As Asia continues to boom and millions of people join consumer society, waste, quite literally, becomes an ever-increasing problem.
Singles
Random Photo
Baby Steps
2012 by-election was the first time people in Burma get a chance to return to the polls after a long period of milirty rule, a historic moment for a country starts to opens to the world.
Junction Square is Yangon's first international style mall opened in March 2012, as part of the opening up to international capitalism. It was built by Shwe Taung Group who were formerly on the US scansions list. It covers about 26,570 square metres and has 270 shops and three cinemas.
Many locals believe the government is using the elections to have the last economic sanctions removed. The elections form part of 7-step 'roadmap' towards a 'disciplined democracy' as spelled out by the junta.
Junction Square is Yangon's first international style mall opened in March 2012, as part of the opening up to international capitalism. It was built by Shwe Taung Group who were formerly on the US scansions list. It covers about 26,570 square metres and has 270 shops and three cinemas.