Charles Pertwee. Images of Afghan police being trained by US advisors in Kabul and Gardez. You have also been in Thailand during the Tsunami in December 2004. I have seen some of your photos showing the disaster and some others showing people celebrating the New Year. How did you view the contrast from your personal point of view? How was that experience? It was a little bit surreal but that is a very obvious thing to say. On one had the celebrations were a triumph of the human spirit, evidence that life goes on no matter what happens. That area of southern Thailand also depends on tourism so the sooner the situation could normalize the better for everyone. But among the people drinking and partying; there were a few who were holding candles for family members who were still missing, or whose bodies had been found, and that was an emotional thing to witness and to photograph.
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Charles Pertwee. Images of Afghan police being trained by US advisors in Kabul and Gardez.

You have also been in Thailand during the Tsunami in December 2004. I have seen some of your photos showing the disaster and some others showing people celebrating the New Year. How did you view the contrast from your personal point of view? How was that experience?

It was a little bit surreal but that is a very obvious thing to say. On one had the celebrations were a triumph of the human spirit, evidence that life goes on no matter what happens. That area of southern Thailand also depends on tourism so the sooner the situation could normalize the better for everyone. But among the people drinking and partying; there were a few who were holding candles for family members who were still missing, or whose bodies had been found, and that was an emotional thing to witness and to photograph.

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