NOSTITZ~Nick. Patpong: Bangkok’s Twilight Zone. Nick Nostitz.

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Author: NOSTITZ~Nick
Publisher: Westzone Publishing Ltd, London.
Year: 2000
Artist: NOSTITZ~Nick
ISBN: 0-9537438-2-9

Patpong: Bangkok’s Twilight Zone. Nick Nostitz.

A Photographic Diary.

Cloth. First Edition. 4to. Hardback with dustjackets.

4to. 160 p. witht 208 (32 col.)

Size: 220×265 mm

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A searingly honest portrayal of the addictive nature of Bangkok’s notorious sex industry.

For five years Nick Nostitz traveled around Asia. Among the places he fetched up as a backpacker was Bangkok. The Thai capital fascinated him so much that he made it his base of operations for his work as a photojournalist in Asia. But his passion is documenting the city’s nightlife. He sees it as a subculture ‘with a morality and ethic that differs essentially from that in everyday life’. For BANGKOK TWILIGHT he turned his camera on the seamy side of the city, full of sex, drugs and crime. Drug wars have claimed thousands of lives, and the police pay no attention to the law. Nevertheless, Thailand is still universally regarded as the ‘Land of Smiles’. There may be a recherche allure to the hookers turning tricks in go-go bars and the weird twilight world of the transexuals, but they are just bit-part players in a greater drama – a shifting world of illusion and reality, captured by the camera.

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