Aroon Thaewchatturat

Cooling minds
The city ’s on fire
Life on the thinnest wire
People have tried
With ambiguous smiles.

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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 [...]

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At the Three Pagodas Pass, in the wild and beautiful far west of Thailand, the orchid and furniture trade is booming, shoot-outs between Burmese rebels and Thai soldiers are rare and the area remains one of those beauty spots that have not yet succumbed to mass tourism.
View Aroon Thaewchatturat’s feature story on Thailand’s Three Pagodas [...]

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Aroon Thaewchatturat has published a series of six postcards in conjunction with BuddhaMagic, a UK-based company that facilitates the flow of love and Light.  The series of high quality images features Buddhist iconography from Thailand.
The cards will initially be available exclusively through BuddhaMagic and the Orchid Bookshop in the Silom Complex Shopping Center (4th Floor) [...]

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Aroon Thaewchatturat has contributed to a number of photobooks in the series Asia Unique by Hans Kemp. Titles currently available are Hands, Doors and Catch. Aroon’s images are included in Hands and Doors. Each title runs to 200 pages, 16×13.4 cm, hardcover with jacket. Text in English. Price US$16.95
Available in all good bookshops and at [...]

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This is my photobook Kulturschock Bergvoelker und Seenomaden Thailands - on Thailand’s minorities -published by Reise Know How Verlag as a companion guide  to the non fiction title by Tom Vater “Kulturschock Bergvoelker und Seenomaden Thailands“, published in 2006 and 2007 respectively.
This photobook contains images of six hill tribes (Akha, Lahu, Lisu, Karen, Hmong and [...]

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