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Photography

Asakusa

 

The Asakusa district of east Tokyo, where I took all but one of these images, is a thriving sightseeing hub attracting primarily Chinese and other Asian visitors. But tourism here is not new. The area and its massive temple, Sensoji, has been the backdrop for the sometimes peculiar proclivities…

Hanoi after the war

The Vietnam of 1981 was a very different place: isolated, impoverished, still on a semi-war footing and run on Marxist lines. The poster reads “Towards the 5th Congress” — no hint of the doi moi (reform) or mo cua (open door) policies that…

Stationed in Myanmar

The first railway opened in Myanmar in 1877, between the Second and Third Anglo-Burmese Wars. What later became the Burma Railway eventually extended to more than 4,800 kilometres of track, spanning much of the country, with the main stations being Rangoon (Yangon) and…

Gilgit-Baltistan

These photos were taken between May and June, when my partner – travel writer, and author Marco Ferrarese – and I went to Pakistan for the first time. We landed in Lahore and travelled to the northern region, Gilgit-Baltistan. This part of the…

Waiting for Kim

Singapore’s Sentosa island—a notoriously expensive and plasticised tourist destination—vibrated with a strange energy yesterday as US president Donald Trump and North Korea’s supreme leader Kim Jong-un met at the Capella Hotel to discuss the denuclearisation…

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