International Photojournalist and Photographer

Today King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand celebrated his birthday. He is 84 years old and this important birthday marks the completion of his 7th twelve-year-cycle. Rama IX, Thailand's adored King assumed the throne in June 1946, 7 years before Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain, and is the world’s longest-reigning monarch.

Tens of thousands of flag waving well-wishers lined the streets oaround the Grand Palace in Bangkok today to catch a glimpse of their King as his Royal motorcade passed

Driving around 50km from the dry flood protected areas of central Bangkok to the North West regions of the capital in the Nonthaburi province, the outlook rapidly changes from normality to disaster area. Off the main roads, in some low areas around  Sai Noi, houses and factories remain under more than a metre of stagnant floodwater, and have done so for more than a month now. Access to many houses in the area is impossible without a 'flat bottomed' boat. The TPE switchboard factory protected

Mr Aye owns a secondhand bookshop in the Sai Noi area which is North West of Bangkok. During the recent floods his store was inundated with murky floodwater which unfortunately ruined the majority of his stock. For nearly 10 years he has built up his business, buying remaindered books from the major book whole-salers in Bangkok - Asia books and B2B - as well as from deceased estates. He not only sells from his shop but also supplies books to the dealers at the famous Bangkok Chatuchuk weekend ma

A few years ago I worked in a large state comprehensive school in the UK: John Port School. In 1999, in unbelievably unseasonal and heavy autumnal rain, flooding of the major river close to the school around the Burton-on-Trent area occurred and transport around the school's catchment area became impossible.  The then headteacher - Michael Crane - decided that, for safety and operational reasons, he needed to close the school for three days. The outcry at this closure from parents, Governors a

She's off to work.  Shopping on the way in a small covenience store, a cool retreat from a hot and sweaty night in Bangkok. Whiskey. Two bottles. "Kip tang Ka?" Very expensive. Why DO we drink alcohol?

I'm returning after taking some phohotographs of a Hindu religious festival. She sees my camera and asks me: "Can you take MY photograph farang?"

"Cap. Of course. Enjoy your work."

In the village of Son, the rice planting season is just finishing and the villagers now wait to harvest the golden ears of rice in the late autumn. Here, the rice paddies are still ploughed with traditional wooden hoes pulled through the sludgy slip by water buffalo. Red clay fields, flooded with water, are planted with rice saplings by young girls up to their knees in mud. The military formation of the rice saplings contrasts sharply with the sinuous curves of the clay perimeter walls contour

Ngan Van May was born more than 70 years ago in Ban Son, a remote mountain village around 150km North West of Hanoi in Vietnam.

Many of Van May's family and friends trekked for days, on treacherous paths through the leech infested mountains and jungles which surround his village, to join with other North Vietnamese comrades and fight in the American war. His younger brother was killed in the late 1960's in combat with the American and South Vietnamese armies in the DMZ area of Vietnam. He is

Deep into the jungle, in the Hoa Binh province of North West Vietnam, we find evidence of recent logging and milling in this ancient rainforest. Is this logging illegal? Mature hardwood trees felled. Fresh red Vietnamese "mahogany" shavings from the large chainsaws used to fell and plank the trees covers the area.

Unfinished business? Perhaps the lumberjacks left a few trunks to be collected later or maybe they were scared off by an official park ranger?  Perhaps the trees were knowingly f

Daily life. Images taken in the last month or so. Updated on 24th June 2011.

Farmers burn waste in their fields after the record sugar cane harvest in Isan, North East Thailand.

Men, women and children are struggling to control the  burning field, running around with their watering cans in the searing heat at the end of a long hot day harvesting and transporting their sugar cane crop.

The record high levels of sugar production is a direct consequence of the heavy rains and floods which devastated Thailand in the autumn of 2010.

The bumper yield may boost expor