Category Archives: street photography

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 areContinue reading “Hail Caesar!”

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.

Bangkok is not your futurist dystopia

I grew tired of Bangkok’s tourists, relentless consumerism and Hello Kitty, and made a Logan’s Run out along one of the city’s major waterways. I expected to find those oft-described gleaming spires of Bladerunner-like urban futurism. Instead, I wandered through a crumbling Heath Robinson environment, finding only low-fi make-do-and-mend survivalism. For some time, I’d beenContinue reading “Bangkok is not your futurist dystopia”

YouTuber’s autobiography isn’t just the Shawshank Redemption for nerds

Waiting for Nerdrotic is pop culture YouTuber Gary Buechler’s surprisingly honest account of a life of drug addiction and the serious crimes of his youth. He couples this with high praise for the support mechanisms of Alcoholics Anonymous. Alongside telling you why Marvel Comics matter, he’ll also tell you the secret of not getting murderedContinue reading “YouTuber’s autobiography isn’t just the Shawshank Redemption for nerds”