I’ve had a busy couple of weeks here in Penang firstly shooting for the fine folk at the Penang Heritage Trust and secondly Georgetown festival kicked off at the beginning of the month – with much in the way of live music, theatre and arts. Once I´ve got the all clear, I´ll be telling you in full about the work I´m currently shooting until then enjoy a couple of images from the festival. Japanese violin prodigy Nanaco has been performing
Read more... →I´ve recently returned from some far off hidden paradises where electricity is a luxury and the Internet, well that´s some far off dream of the crazies. I love places like this the peace and tranquility, living in harmony with nature, farming in ways that have remained unchanged in centuries. One of those places is the small coastal village of Lamalera on the island of Lembatta in Eastern Indonesia. Here the whole village relies heavily on the fishermen, as they have
Read more... →There´s just enough upload speed for me to send you a quick postcard from the beautiful island of Lembata. I´m here to visit a very interesting fishing village, more on that next week when I´ll have a full account of every catch. Weather is nice, see you soon, wish you were here. Tom
Read more... →- I’ve been trying to get this uploaded for weeks now, it’s been pretty frustrating, it was actually written a couple of weeks ago and it´s taken me this long to process the images and find a suitable internet connection to upload everything, its pretty image heavy but I think it´ll be worth the wait. In the last 10 days I´ve climbed 3 different volcanoes the last of which, Ijen, I climbed 5 times. Why? Keep reading to find out.
Read more... →With the sunrising at around 5:30am here in Indonesia there have been some pretty early wake up calls, but none more so than this morinings when the alarm went off at 2:30, closly followed by another at 2:33 and another one at 2:38, by 2:45 I was out of bed wandering if I really needed to wake up at rediculous o´clock to get the shots I wanted. 2 hours, and a 5km trek later that question was answered. This image
Read more... →I have recently returned from the stunning island of Pulau Karimun Jawa 7 hours off the North cost of Java in Indonesia. There is an option to fly to these islands, which I imagine probably only takes an hour or two, but where´s the fun in that. Personally I´m not a huge fan of flying for the simple reason that you never have much interaction with anyone else on-board, we all just sit there facing forward waiting in near silence for
Read more... →Just a few shots today, so I wont bore you with too much rambling text. These shots of fish being smoked were taken in the North Java town of Jepara, I was passing on a hired scooter and could resist stopping and meeting the locals. This one eventually became our lunch. More coming soon, hopefully before the weekend but no promises, Ok?
Read more... →We’ll I’ve made it to Indonesia, the island of Java to be specific and so far all is good. I’ve met some great people and am starting to pick up a little of the language too. I’ve got a few things lined up here in Java before I head East. Meet Tomo. He, along with many others on Javas North coast, is a furniture maker. I spent many hours with Tomo and other furniture makers around the village of Jepara, North
Read more... →Sorry for the blanket silence recently but I´ve been away on a remote island 7 hours off the north coast of Java, hanging out with fishermen and wood carvers – but more about them later. On my return I found out that my last post on the Clan Jetties of Penang did not go live when I expected it to, it’s all fixed now and you can read the post here I´m lining up a few posts here so if
Read more... →On 17th April I´ll set off on one of my mad adventures chasing festivals and the like through Asia and the Pacific. I´m bringing along my amazing girlfriend, Paloma who´ll keep me sane and focused, she´s also the worlds best light stand. Anyway I thought I´d share with you a basic outline of our schedule, now I know from past experiences that on these long trips the route taken tends not to be the same as the one originally planned. There are
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