“While pursuing a career in ethnobotany - living and working with some of South East Asia’s most remote and traditional societies - Aroon began to document and photograph endangered cultures. Her work with the Moken sea gypsies of Thailand led her to complete an MSc and gave Aroon an opportunity to publish her images of the last nomadic hunter gatherers in the region with GEO Magazine, The British Library, LIFESTYLE+TRAVEL and many other publications.
Since then Aroon has been shooting travel features, coronations and killer waves for various magazines and her agency On Asia Images Photography (www.onasia.com). Right now, Aroon is putting together a collection of images for a book on Thailand’s hilltribes.”
Peter Myers - LIFESTYLE+TRAVEL
Aroon Thaewchatturat has been shooting assignment and stock photography since 2004. Her features have appeared in magazines such as GEO and The Far Eastern Economic Review, while Aroon’s stock imagery has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, The Financial Times, Condé Nast, Lonely Planet, MERIAN, Spiegel-Online and many other publications.
Aroon has published three photobooks with German travel publisher Reise Know How. She has contributed images to many other Reise Know How titles, including Thailand Handbook, Bangkok City Guide, South Thailand, and Culture Shock Thailand Minorities.
She won an Emmy for her production work for CBS News 60 Minutes on the plight of Thailand’s Moken sea nomads in the wake of the 2004 Tsunami.
Aroon is represented by OnAsia Images, Asia’s largest photo agency, while some of her features are syndicated by Planet Syndication, the UK largest feature agency. Since October 2009, Aroon’s work is also represented by Alamy, a UK based stock photo agency.
She has contributed many images to the recently published Moon Handbook to Cambodia.
Aroon works predominantly in South and South East Asia, but has recently been shooting several feature stories in France, Morocco and New Zealand.