There are no icebergs in the Gulf of Thailand, but at any given moment there is, in this and many other seas, someone thinking about the Titanic — or at least about Leonardo DiCaprio. I almost didn’t take this photograph. For most of three hours I had been lying on a bench on the ferry’s deck, […]
Thoughts On Getting A Bit Too Thin (Deir ez-Zur, Syria)
The following was written in June 2010 from a sweltering (but fondly remembered) room at the Hotel Al-Jamia Al-Arabia in Deir ez-Zur, Syria. It has happened again: after several months on the road, walking and photographing throughout the day in the less-than-moderate Middle Eastern heat, I’ve lost weight. I’ve lost so much, in fact, that […]
10 D-Day Related Places To Visit In Normandy, France
From whatever vantage point one is to view the Allied invasion of Normandy on June 6, 1944, the view exercises the mind and is not easily comprehended. The eyes of a pilot flying one of the 13,000 aircraft, the eyes of a naval officer commanding one of the more than 5,000 vessels, the eyes of […]
10 Photos: Town On The River Kwai (Kanchanaburi, Thailand)
“Sleep tight, dad. We won’t forget.” In Thailand’s Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, where 6,982 Allied prisoners of war are buried, one need look upon only a handful of graves – and the epitaphs left by loved ones – to recoil at the cost of war. I’m standing now over the grave of Sergeant S.T. Jephcote, who […]
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