Aroon Thaewchatturat

Life Sentenced - Justice

aroon — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:19:18 +0000

Trial trial trial!
Scream scream scream!
Justice is obviously a dream.
No matter how loud you scream.
The pawn always on the bright day scenes.
No no no, no question to be asked.
Yes yes yes, we have justice.
Yes, yes, yes, that’s fair enough.

Angkor Guide

aroon — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 03:27:38 +0000

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Coming up in November 2010, City Trip Angkor and Siem Reap, by Reise Know How Verlag

No way to turn

aroon — Sat, 19 Jun 2010 15:57:25 +0000

Let’s bygones be gone
The linkage was utterly torn
Some, think would depends upon
Separation - was once invisible
Obviously and clearly visible at dawn.

Crossroad Burning

aroon — Sat, 15 May 2010 10:24:13 +0000

Cooling minds

The city ’s on fire

Life on the thinnest wire

People have tried

With ambiguous smiles.

Moon Handbooks Cambodia

aroon — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:06:59 +0000

Finally, Moon Handbook Cambodia by Tom Vater is out, 1st edition - January 2010, right after the global economic recession. Moon Spotlight Angkor Wat is also available now. I contributed many images in color and black and white to both publications. These two books are on sale through Amazon. View images.

The Sea Gypsies

aroon — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 18:13:48 +0000

Emmy award-winning documentary from 2006, “The Sea Gypsies“.

I was working as the associate producer. The DVD is available on Amazon. The sea gypsies DVD tells the story of how the Moken (sea gypsies) survived the tsunami in 2004. Their legend is the key. To find out more , check out the DVD.

Format: NTSC

Run Time: 13 minutes

By: CBS NEWS 60 Minutes

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MERIAN Thailand

aroon — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:59:23 +0000

I recently finished two assignments for MERIAN magazine, one of Germany’s best known travel publications. I visited the Beluga School for Life in Khaolak to look at the effects of Tsunami, 5 years on and trekked through the hill of north Thailand to meet some of the country’s ethnic minorities. MERIAN Thailand is out in Germany, Austria and Switzerland now. (Feb. 2010 Issue)

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Palace Hotels of Rajasthan in Traversing the Orient Magazine

aroon — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:05:17 +0000

In 2007, my photo book, Palace Hotels of Rajasthan, was published by Reise Know How Verlag in Germany. Tom Vater wrote the text. The book covers a wide range of heritage hotels with royal connections around Rajasthan, from modest but attractive mansions to gigantic palaces, from pure, sumptuous Raj nostalgia to bottomless kitsch.

The book came about after two trips around Rajasthan, in 2005 and 2006, for a series of magazine stories on the hotel businesses of India’s splendidly eccentric maharajas.

This month’s Traversing the Orient Magazine looks back at some of the most interesting properties we stayed at.

I shot Paul Theroux

aroon — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 08:04:30 +0000

The Calcutta connection.

During a recent Q&A session at Kinokuniya, a Bangkok Bookshop, best selling travel writer Paul Theroux asked his audience, whether anyone had been to Calcutta. Only myself and my husband, Tom, raised their hands.

Mr. Theroux, clearly as enthralled by Calcutta as a writer as I am as a photographer, called the city “an antique” and a “living museum”.

Hence Mr. Theroux had no problem recognizing me when I lined up to have one of his books signed by him. He asked me whether I was a travel writer. I had to disappoint him and tell him I was in fact a travel photographer, but that my husband Tom here next to me was a fellow travel writer.

Mr. Theroux got up and greeted Tom and then graciously posed for a portrait.

Kathakali - Story Play in Kerala, India

aroon — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 15:27:13 +0000