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Thailand Tsunami Then and Now Gallery (Zoriah)
UPDATE 3/29/2006: NEW SERIES CAN BE FOUND HERE.
Zoriah has uploaded a gripping series of comparison shots dealing with the tsunami that hit Thialand in 2004. I have posted it in its entirety below. Also, here is a link to a photographic book on the devestation produced by VII. To see some other great series, follow this link, or this one. Go here for a list of more books by great conflict photographers.
This backgrounder is provided by the photographer: As an ex disaster specialist I still have many friends working in the field all over the world and in the year following the Asian Tsunami I kept in close contact with them. Just as I expected I soon began to hear stories of how western money coupled with the tourism industry was rebuilding Thailand in record speed while Sri Lanka was still struggling and Banda Aceh was left only with resources for making baby steps. Slightly ahead of the one year anniversary of the Tsunami I decided to return to Thailand and shoot every image taken the year before from the exact same angle. Although I covered the Tsunami from both Thailand and Sri Lanka I was not able to get the funding necessary to return to Sri Lanka to re-capture those images one year later. I think that this is interesting in itself, as I literally had a long list of clients and agencies waiting for the Thailand project. However, a few weeks later John Stanmeyer from VII was able to return to Banda Aceh and shoot a project very similar to mine and it is viewable on the VII website. I find the two projects an interesting visual study in how two countries with very different economic structures recover from a major natural disaster.
[Editor's note: Zoriah is currently searching for funding or grants to return to Pakistan and Kashmir at the end of this year to complete an Earthquake Then and Now project. Please contact Zoriah through his website if you are interested or have information.]
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Amazing Imagery
Amazing work, you captured the destruction tasteful ( if that is truly possible) and the rebirth of Thailand, trying to normalize their lives again.
bravo.
What actually changes?
I think it's great to view the images and see how things have been rebuilt. It's also encouraging to read other supportive comment postings. The question that springs to mind for me, though, is: "What's actually changed?". What has Thailand and the world learnt about the disaster and subsequently implemented to prevent it happening again?
From the imagery it appears not very much - it looks very much like business as usual...
Great stuff!
Rephotography is always enlightening. This series is exceptionally powerful. Wonderful work.
Seems
The Thai do a far better job of recovering from natural disasters than the Americans
Kontraszt...
Mi támogatgattuk őket magyarok... Bár azt hiszem, a képeket nézve, felépültek volna maguktól is a papírházaikból kiindulva...
Remélem, a baptisták rendesen továbbították a pénzeinket!
Stunning. Absolutely
Stunning. Absolutely stunning images. Thank you for sharing them.
WOW
Wow, those pictures are incredible. My wife and I would have arrived on Christmas morning the day of the tsunami, if not for last minute changes in plans. We went to Ireland instead. When we landed we couldn't believe the news. The friends we were going to meet there were safe, though. I still can't wait to go to Thailand, I hear nothing but good things about the country and the people. -Tommy
Impressive
Even if there is still a lot to do in order to reconstruct the country, this photoset is really great and encouraging!
Impressive
very impressive. sorry for the dead people :(
Awesome recovery
Awesome recovery which is worth applauding. Hats off to Thai guys.
Those are some pretty good
Those are some pretty good shots, shows how quickly things can and should be rebuilt.
Excellent
beautiful contrast
nature is stong, but we are nature
Tsunami in Thailand
I would like to known Tsunami will happen in Thailand again because next month I will go to Punket in Thailand for holiday so anyone can recommend me ,please about that
hi next year in july i will
hi next year in july i will be visiting south pattaya in thailand. i was wondering did the tsunami reach as far as south pattaya? and also is july the rainy season and will these type of weather conditions bring on a tsunami? thanks
Phuket is back to normal
Nice job on matching the photo angels and significance of the image (ie. the empty hospital bed). It's important for galleries like this to exist so that people know Phuket has fully recovered and is well and ready for the tourists.
Pattaya
I've just returned fromm Pattaya. I like to live there. Pattaya and Jentem Beach were spared. Thailand is going to be really cool now that the coup is over, Taksan was a very bad man and is wanted for crimes aginst humanity.
Consider people
You are wondering if the tsunami will hit again, well we dont know. If they did they would have predicted the first one where so many people lost their lives and families. Some children lost parents. If you go and something happens then you enter at your own risk. A disaster could happen anywhere even close to home and devistate us like it did to them, hint Hurricane Katrina!!! It could have been us so be thankful and keep the people who went through that in your prayers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too bad we can't have a nice
Too bad we can't have a nice gallery like this for New Orleans.
Some things have changed
Some things have changed and a lot has stayed the same. Among the lessons learned, though, are those related to the processes of development more than the reduction of damage in future disasters. The Army was building housing in Baan Nam Khem all through last year. Their building methods and materials were the same flimsy construction as the destroyed buildings. They got them up fast but without much (any) consultation with the affected communities. Some evacuation drills have been done, but that won't mean much in a couple of years, I'm sure. Naturally, because most of the traditional residents are fisherfolk they build by and over the shoreline (the traditional Moken communities). That can't really change if they are to maintain their livelihoods and their culture. What is of greater concern over the last year are the ongoing land grabs and how traditional communities can be in any way protected from rapacious development - how, further, they can take some control of development. In some areas they are taking some control. In Patong, where, I believe, some of these images are from, it is certainly back to 'business as usual'. In other places communities have begun to take control of the future of their communities, livelihoods and economic development.
Natural Disasters
If that is a true question and not a joke, then the answer is: there is no way of knowing whether or not it will happen again and certainly no way to tell when.
Just want to visit Pattaya
Just want to visit Pattaya this winter, I think everything will be ok. Cool pictures, I mean good shown differences.