Eight years of hard work using both film and digital, Urban Bangkok captures beautifully life through a lens from traditional Bangkok to the familiar modern architecture that has sprung up over the years, flexing it's foreign invested muscles alongside the real spirit of Thailand's capital which is slowly being forgotten to make way for the showy facade of it's self destructing 'get rick quick' (from foreign investment) malady.

Anyway, it is a great book that serves not only as a perfect souvenir for anybody that has been to Thailand but also for anybody who has lived here and wants to remember the Bangkok they knew and loved and look back at the way things were. I'll be getting my copy on my way to the departure lounge.

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...And if you want a professional review:

To visitors from other lands, 10 million or more annually, Bangkok may be a colourful and photogenic vacation stopover, a place to 'let down one's hair' and party 'til dawn, or an opportunity to shop, to seek renewal in its famed spas, to sample a world-renowned cuisine--or all of the above. The list of options seems endless and is never routine or dull. But Bangkok is a complex city, with multiple and often confounding facets, moreover one that seems to be in constant flux, and capturing its essence seems an elusive goal. Photographer Joakim Leroy, in undertaking this daunting task, distills the glittering gold of temple spires, the colourful shops and streets, the flashing neon lights of nighttime, to sometimes poignant, sometimes dramatic monochromes, and thereby approaches the very heart and soul of this great metropolis and their charming inhabitants, those 'Thais with their notorious smiles'. An unforgettable journey through this most memorable of cities--for all who have ever visited or stayed in Bangkok, or who only wish they had.