Words and pictures documenting the need-not-apply end of the social scale.
Exploring the Peerless Piers of Thailand’s Koh Kood
Perfect blue skies. Perfect blue seas. The Thai island of Koh Kood is an affordable and accessible alternative to the Maldives, with the bonus of the world’s best cuisine. Thailand’s islands are rightly popular destinations. Koh Samui and Koh Chang are perhaps the most visited; Koh Phangan is famed for its full moon parties. Many…
Hail Caesar!
Starz’s Spartacus: House of Ashur is a triumphant return to writer/showrunner Steven DeKnight’s Roman world of sex, gore and quality storytelling. It proves an entertaining tale of survival in a will-to-power world that owes more to the exploitation movies of Roger Corman than the aristocratic infighting of Game of Thrones. Spartacus and his army are…
Living on a Burmese Train Station
Pyinmana, Central Myanmar, is a railway town halfway between Yangon and Mandalay. Between 2015-2018 I documented families living on station platforms, informal economies, and everyday life during the brief period of political reform . After the 2021 coup, these images now mark a world few will see.
Lee Russell Wilkes 