Currently based in Bangkok, Thailand, I’ve been a passionate photographer since buying my first camera when I was 15. For the last 30 plus years I’ve been carrying my camera with me on my travels, trying to capture anything interesting that crosses my path and documenting aspects of others’ lives, often very different from mine, but just normal days in the cultures in which they live. I’ve been lucky enough to spend the last 16 years living and working in many Asian countries, enjoying the hospitality of others and taking a few pleasing photos along the way. I hope you enjoy the small selection on my website.
One genre of photography I love more than anything is the photo story; a series of photographs sewn together by a few words, giving I feel, far greater incite than either a single photo or just a printed narrative. My stories are sometimes just comments on an interesting moment, journey, place or a person. I hope a few of them will also interest you.
Now I shoot mainly digital out of ease, but I still enjoy the magic of film photography, and love taking out my old medium format cameras to take landscapes. As well as creating photographic stories I shoot various types of travel photography and also some commercial work: family portraits and food photography to name but two.
Thank you for taking time to look at my site and a small section of my work and please don’t hesitate to contact me using the form on the Contact page.
Paul Ballam