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Sanam Luang. Early 90's
"welcome to Bangkok 1996 - city of ten million people, three million vehicles and an estimated four hundred and fifty new vehicles on the road every day."
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" The automobile reigns supreme, devouring all in its path, clogging the city's once serene arteries, substituting the air we breathe for toxic, cancer-inducing gases and dictating the pace of life through auto-fetishists and car-cult junkies, trapped in one-sided love affairs with their BENZine-burning techno-status-symbols and destined to die behind the wheels of their steel-boxed-suitors, vital fluids amalgamating in pools of oily-red liquid-life under violent impromptu street-sculptures of dying screams, crushed metal and RIPped flesh, eerily lit by the flashing red seen-it-all-before roof-top eyes of curb-crawling corpse-collectors' vans-cum-highway-hyenas, grinning radiator grills mocking the efforts of rescue workers as they cut through satiated cabins of twisted metal to reach the dead and the dying. "
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Bystanders stare at the dead from behind screens. Bangkok
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Pedestrian. Samut Phrakhan.
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The burnt remains of a passenger sat in the rear of a taxi when it was rammed by a bus. Bangkok.
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South Thailand. Early 90's
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Bus Conductor. Kanchanaburi. Early 90's
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Su Sarn Wat Don. The bones of unidentified accident victims, exhumed from their shallow graves to make way for more dead. Bangkok early 1990's
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Page from 'The Cars That Ate Bangkok' (with Ruam Katanyu Badge)
"Past midnight under flyover, chain-smoking, keep-the-mosquitos-at-bay; 
​Ruam Katanyu pick-up bursts into life and takes off. Jump in the back, cameras smacking and race into light-swallowing fumes.

Minutes later, stand around motorcyclist, face down after misjudging a gap in traffic - No-one does anything. Just stare and smoke cigarettes.
Tell them he's not dead.
"No - Dead already."
Finally convince them to take a look at him so they roll him over like a steak and his chest starts heaving, pumping blood out of his mouth.
"Not dead yet!"
and they bundle him into the back of the pick-up and pull out slowly, expecting him to die soon anyway.
Blood covers the road like some experimental canvas.
It will be gone by day-break, flakes of tell-tale red hiding in the tyre treads of passing motorists' vehicles en-route to their own unchartered rendezvous. "
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Motorcyclist. Bangkok Early 90's
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Nanglinchee flyover
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Thanon Kampaeng Phet 1995
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Snap them from a screaming tuktuk, three up riding blind into the midnight monsoon. Bangkok. Asoke if my memory serves.
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Cop with spray paint
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  • Home
  • Dispatches and Dystopia ('R' denotes Disturbing Content)
    • Indochine (R)
    • Nepal
    • The Land Of Smiles >
      • The Cars That Ate Bangkok (R)
      • Black May - Thailand's Suppression of the Pro-Democracy Movement 1992 (R)
      • The Troubled South - Thailand's Muslim Insurgency (R)
    • East Timor - Resistance in the Mountains (R)
    • When The Earth Moves - The Indian Earthquake and Tsunami (R)
    • Night Of The Red Bowls - Ethnic Cleansing in Borneo (R)
    • Dhaka - Rickshaw Rides - Bangladesh
    • Dog Days Doggo - Canine Calamity (R)
  • TwoSnakeStudio - The Evolution of Blenkinsop's Workplace
  • NEWS / Here, Now and Vintage
  • Press / Critiques / Interviews
    • PB at Photo Kathmandu by Prawin Adhikari 2015 (ENG)
    • PB Nepal Work - by Frederic Lecloux 2015 (ENG / FR))
    • PB by Leica World Quarterly 2001 (Eng)
    • Extreme Asie - James Burnet 2000 (ENG)
    • PB's Asian Tsunami by Pascal Convert 2005 (FR)
    • Vous avez dit reel? Christian Caujolle 1998 (FR)
    • PB Mighty Real - C. Caujolle
  • New Project - InZomia
  • Education
    • Burma Workshop December 2018
  • Information / About
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