In January 2010 I left Hamburg, to spend a year in Thailands capital Bangkok.
Apart from expecting to get a decent sun tan and several mosquito bites, there wasn’t really a meaningful plan behind this venture into the unknown. I wasn’t too worried about getting a few assignements from magazines back home, in order to pay for my curries. Shortly after my arrival though, a political crisis hit the capital and Thailands image as an easy going Southeast Asian paradise took another dent. As a result, my potential clients looked elsewhere for untroubled travel destinations.
Before the city went up in smoke though, my girlfriend, travel companion, and liaison officer Gabriele, managed to sell an idea to the corporate magazine “à la carte” of household appliance maker “Miele”. She had read an interview with the well known food stylist Suthipong Suriya, aka Karb, in a Bangkokian paper. We found him to be not only a passionate lover of thai food, but also an expert on where to go for the best of it, how to cook it and of course, how to make it look extra-yummy.
I ended up not only taking the pictures, but for lack of an author, wrote my first editorial “piece” as well.