Thangu, lying at 4114m in the far north of Sikkim, is the last inhabited village before the mountains of the […]
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Clare Rowntree
Kalimpong
Feeling less than inspired by the guidebook description of Kalimpong as ‘grubby’, with ‘a recent history of neglect, decaying infrastructure […]
If at first you don’t succeed
‘Sometimes you’ve got to work a little harder and chip away until you get the images you want and not make the mistake of walking away too soon.’
Beyond All We Can Imagine
As part of my semi-obsessive research for my next photography trip to Ha Giang Province in the far north of […]
Of yaks and trigonometry
Early every morning when I was staying with the Brokpa people in the Himalayan country of Bhutan, I would bump […]
They make it look zo easy!
It was starting to feel pretty eerie as we rounded hairpin after hairpin climbing the dirt road up the mountainside […]
Among the Hmong in Meo Vac
It’s a funny and rather confusing mixture of contradictions in Meo Vac in Ha Giang Province, N.E Vietnam. The landscape […]
Chasing Paul’s light and finding noodles in Dong Van
You don’t ‘happen’ to come across Dong Van in N.E.Vietnam, you decide to go there and then go to considerable […]
Seen from both sides
This one was shaping up to be everything I don’t want out of an encounter. Driving along in the pickup […]
For the times they are a-changin’
“They were in a fun mood and we enjoyed some banter while we bought them some drinks and Theng practised his flirting skills again, while I did them some instant polaroid photos for them to keep. One of them didn’t like her image though, and handed it back to me insisting that I do a better one.”
Singing In The Lifeboats 