Kees Sprengers - Ethnic Diversity in Luang Namtha - Laos: Recently Added Galleries and Collections

Silk Road By Dorothy Culloty

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 16:25:44 GMT

]]>In July 2012, Dorothy culloty and hour NZ friend Carol Galloawy went on a month long trip along the old Silk Road in Central Asia .

She travelled with my Sony NEX5N, on which she had about 1 minutes familiarisation prior to departure. She came back with a few thousand pictures, these are our selection. She will provide captions in the near future, Timor Leste internet access permitting...

All copyright is with her, she only uses my site for convenience.

Timor Leste work

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 12:58:59 GMT

]]>We are currently living in Timor Leste, where my wife Dorothy Culloty got a job as management adviser for MCEA, a cooperative of rice and coffee farmers. I approached local NGO to offer my services as a photographer, which allows me to get out of town occasionally. This gallery will show some of the work I have done to date. If it gets too big, i'll subdivide it. To date, I have done jobs for Besik, a Australian supported organisation promoting hygiene and clean water, for Plan International, and for MCEA. In near future I shall indicate more explicitly which pictures I made for what organisation , what project and what location. Any questions about this gallery, email me at kees@galangalpress.com.
All pictures copyright kees sprengers

Bali2013

Fri, 04 Jan 2013 05:44:23 GMT

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VSA Vols day

Mon, 03 Dec 2012 12:52:34 GMT

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Fur Hans

Fri, 21 Sep 2012 04:00:13 GMT

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People at work in Luang Namtha - Laos

Fri, 13 Apr 2012 07:42:04 GMT

]]>People at work in Luang Namtha - Laos

For Rik

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 04:44:22 GMT

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TAEC Book Small

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:34:34 GMT

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TaecbookSmall

Mon, 05 Mar 2012 03:22:18 GMT

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Family visit NZ Nov 2011

Mon, 26 Dec 2011 08:29:06 GMT

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Pancakes in Sen Monoram

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:23:44 GMT

]]>One day we hired a guide and a car to do some sightseeing. During a trip through a village we saw some women operating a grindstone to make rice flower, in liquid form. We were explained this would be used for 'pancakes'. Later that afternoon we had lunch at a restaurant in the middle of a coffee plantation. The pancakes were on the menu, and we ate them. We liked them so much that we asked if we could order one more and record the process of making them in the kitchen. The whole story with detailed photographs of the process will soon be published on our blog on http://foodfromnorthernlaos.com
(The name mentions Laos, our most visited country, but this was recorded in Cambodia instead)
This is only a few pictures, the total series on this subject will follow as soon as my internet connection gets a bit more cooperative.

WWF Sen Monoram

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 17:15:13 GMT

]]>On invitation of Bill Tuffin, who worked for WWF in Cambodia for a while, we came to Sen Monoram to take some photographs of several local projects. This included a day on the road with WWF to look at some of their involvement. These images are full size and will take some time to show if you have slow internet. They are primarily intended for WWF, and can only be downloaded and reproduced by WWF. Anyone else who wants access to downlaod, contact me directly.

Cooking with Ma

Mon, 12 Dec 2011 12:00:31 GMT

]]>Ma is a collegue of Brigit. We asked Brigit, who works and lives in Sen Monoram if she knew someone who could demonstrate how to cook a couple of local dishes for us. She found Ma prepared to do so. This gallery has all the photos from that that cooking session. It will soon be fully described in our blog on the foodwebsite http://www.foodfromnorthernlaos.com/ under the heading Blog.

Vandara 4 Liz

Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:01:08 GMT

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Elephant Sanctuary Cambodia

Sun, 27 Nov 2011 04:47:53 GMT

]]>In Mondulkiri province an elephant sanctuary was set up a few kilometers outside the provincial capital Sen Monorom. It was started about 5 years ago by Jack Highwood.
You can find them on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/groups/70820671560/

We spent a day exploring it and photographing. More about our visit later . In the meantime these websites will tell more about the sanctuary
http://www.lonelyplanet.com/cambodia/northeastern-cambodia/sen-monorom/activities/ecotour/elephant-valley-project

http://www.globalteer.org/projects/cambodia-elephant-forest-conservation.html

We came to Cambodia this time to visit our friend Bill who worked for WWF in Mondulkiri, to photograph several tourist ventures, and to find out about and record some Cambodian food. As I am writing this, Dorothy is working on the first of series of Cambodian recipes, see
http://www.foodfromnorthernlaos.com

Wat Xiang Thong -Luang Prabang

Sun, 16 Oct 2011 13:34:30 GMT

]]>A series of photographs i shot during my last visit to Luang Prabang Laos. An important old temple, due to be restored this year with assistance of the US ambassadors fund.

Wat Visoun -Luang Prabang

Tue, 11 Oct 2011 05:31:57 GMT

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Alexselect

Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:08:23 GMT

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Khamsouk's Wedding

Thu, 04 Aug 2011 09:13:52 GMT

]]>Wedding in the Khmu village of Ban Chaloensouk, Luang Namtha, district and province, Laos.

I have posted the whole story of this wedding in four parts on our blog at http://www.foodfromnorthernlaos.com/2011/08/04/khamsouks-wedding-part-4-and-final/, but with only a few pictures. I intend to put here about 100 pictures of this wedding

Ban Goop, Nale district

Tue, 02 Aug 2011 13:08:52 GMT

]]>A visit to Ban Goop in Nale district. November 2003, in the company of Dorothy (My wife), Bill, Pawn and Bouakhet. The trek was made to investigate the possibility of developing a new tourist trek in this direction, as an extension to the Luang Namtha Ecotourism Development Project . Although we found plenty of things that may have been interesting to foreign tourists, the venture never got off the ground due to lack of official approval. Nevertheless, it was a wonderful opportunity to visit a village that had not previously been visited by foreigners.

Jack's 90's Birthday

Thu, 24 Mar 2011 05:57:45 GMT

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Zaydin's Birthday

Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:29:40 GMT

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Akha Villages in Luang Namtha Laos

Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:36:40 GMT

]]>In early 2003, I visited for the first time Ban Nammat Gao and Ban Nammat Mai, two Akha villages in the protected NamHa Biodiversity area, high in the hills above Luang Namtha town. These villages had been selected by the Unesco sponsored eco-tourism development project as destination for tourism treks. It took six hours on foot to reach Ban Nammat Gao, following steep jungle trails.

The Project had built a small guest lodge which could house the maximum eight visitors allowed per group, plus their two guides.
The following day, a nearly seven hour trek to Ban Nammat Mai, and the third day six hours to get back to Luang Namtha.

My first visit to these two villages was an eyeopener, and I visited them twice again in the next few months, and again in december 2003. Each time on my repeat visits, I took back many of the photographs taken on my earlier visits, which were very much appreciated by the recipients. They also enabled me to take more photographs inside the houses, and build up a good general picture of life in these hillvillages.

Unfortunately for the eco-tourism project, both villages have since moved from the protected area to sites closer to the road and to town.

Recently, a visitor called cat, has added some very informative comments to my comments, on photo #5,#6,#15,#51,#58,#72.

I strongly encourage further comments from those who have more information then I have.
Technical note for photographers:
In 2002/2003, I used Sony Cybershot 717, later 828. Some of the colour isn't as refined as my later portfolios shot on Canon 20 and 5D. Those shots in the Akha village portfolio that do not have exif data were shot on 35 mm Contax rangefinder, and scanned. The interior shots were sometimes done on high speed colour print film, which results in grainy images.

Isan Wedding

Mon, 31 May 2010 05:34:27 GMT

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Lanten (Lantien, "Yao Mun") Wedding, Ban Nam Lue

Sun, 16 May 2010 11:56:12 GMT

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Lunar New Year in a Yao Mien village

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 00:13:22 GMT

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Yao Mun Ordination ceremony

Wed, 18 Feb 2009 06:20:13 GMT

]]>In early January 2009, as I was travelling in Luang Namtha province, I stumbled upon a Yao Mun village (Lantien) where a ceremony was being organised to ordinate two young men into Dao (Tao?) priesthood. I am grateful to the people of the village to allow me to photograph this ceremony, so there will be a record for posterity.
More detail to come

Portraits from ethnic villages in Laos

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:07:28 GMT

]]>A selection of portraits of people in Luang Namtha Province.

More information about who and where will be added soon

Dao Ordination in Yao village

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 15:31:27 GMT

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Laos- Lantien ordination ceremony

Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:27:00 GMT

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