Lithuania Guy in the Bangkok Night.....

Lithuania Guy in the Bangkok Night

His 1st night in Bangkok, senses overloaded, brain in a state of chaos, the young Lithuania guy is spinning out of control, a galaxy away from the order and quiet customs of Northern Europe.......

Australian Accountant in Bangkok Night

Australian Accountant in Bangkok Night

Back in Australia, he's a big time accountant, signs off on corporate books, maintains a stellar reputation, is a decent family man, a man of integrity, married to the same lady for over 30 years....but in the Bangkok Night things are not so clear........

Thailand "Influential Person" Number Two

"Influential Person" Number Two

In Thailand, there are many "Influential Persons", some very influential others less so.......sometimes and in some situations and in some territories, their influence goes up and down, depending on what other persons might be interested or involved or necessary to whatever is taking place.....while technically not "aristocrats", they do have "fiefdoms", much like the Dukes and Lords of other places and other times.........

Old Farang in the Bangkok Night

Old Farang in the Bangkok Night

Pumped up on a pocket full of non-prescription Viagra and unlimited access to the 100's of ATM's conveniently placed throughout Bangkok's nightlife districts, the Old Farang wanders about pretending to still be a Player.......going to Buddha might be a better choice for someone in their mid-80's.....but each of us is destined to die no matter what.........however well-intentioned, thoughtful, intelligent or stupid and blind we might be........

Retired Influential Person

Retired Influential Person

In Thailand a Retired Influential Person is not really retired......more in the background, half-hidden by shadows....having quiet conversations full of whispers and things not spoken.....known by no one and deferred to by everyone.....

Noir NGO Guy in the Bangkok Night....

Noir NGO Guy in the Bangkok Night

He was sent to Bangkok by one of the world's most famous NGO's....to help people.....to do good.......end of story......

International Noir Writer/Journalist in Bangkok Night

International Noir Writer/Journalist in Bangkok Night

He barges in on world leaders in Asia, SE Asia and South Asia...dumps his stuff on their desk...asks them rude questions......follows up until he gets an answer......writes about the world as he sees it, raw, rough, darwinistic, crude.....giving little heed to what is "politically correct"....

Girl from the Bangkok Night...

Girl from the Bangkok Night

Western guys with six figure USD incomes chase her back and forth across the Bangkok Night.....guys working for major entities......guys with MBA's, pedigrees....in good shape physically, well-dressed, mentally alert.....and yet she somehow manages to not only hold her own in this intense hi-stakes male-female game, but to end up on the receiving end of an endless stream of monthly "sponsor" income and to be the person "in charge".............

Isan Girl Being Consumed by the Bangkok Night

Isan Girl Being Consumed by the Bangkok Night

When she first arrived in Bangkok from her farming village in Isan, she was full of hopes and dreams.......to make money for her 2 young children, her mother and father, help her brother buy a PU truck, to learn the ways of the Big City and the World, despite her 8th grade education.......her smile was magical, she was an astonishingly beautiful female, engaging, sexy, magnetic, no matter what she wore or didn't wear....over time the Bangkok Night gradually ground her down....and down and down....too many men, too many ladydrinks, too many hotel rooms, promises, broken hearts, human misery and desire on full display night after night after night...after almost 6 years working, she was finally consumed by the fire and heat until one day she was gone.....

Young American Poet in the Bangkok Night

Young American Poet in the Bangkok Night

His first night out in Bangkok, he's taking it all in, under pressure and challenged, his ideals and assumed beliefs tested in every way by the surrounding chaos, degeneracy and depravity....so far from the "ethics" and "morality" of his childhood and education....so beyond everything he knows to be "correct"........

Muslim Girl in the Bangkok Night

Muslim Girl in the Bangkok Night

It's 4AM in the Bangkok Night, the traffic slowing, the street stalls getting packed away, the girls, ladyboys and punters fading........a couple of street sweeper woman already at work cleaning up the mess......another shift completed, her thoughts go back to her childhood in the Deep South near Malaysia......the early morning calls to prayer from the mosques....the ceremony and ritual of her family and village....without the money she sends back, nothing would have ever changed......

Thailand Big Boss Smilng in the Land of Smiles....

Thailand Big Boss Smiling in Land of Smiles

Plenty of reasons to be smiling, beautiful home, luxury fleet of European cars, stylish females in every direction, power, money, fame..............he's a Thailand Big Boss all lit up in every way.......

Australian Tycoon in the Bangkok Night...

Australian Tycoon in the Bangkok Night

He lives in Australia, UK and the U.S., travels the world in his corporate jet, has made billions and more billions......past his prime, his face almost a mask, he always enjoys his visits to Bangkok, for meetings and more, the feelings of empowerment, pleasure, status and place, surrounded by smiles and people bowing....

American Politician in the Bangkok Night

American Politician in the Bangkok Night

In Washington, D.C., he carries "weight", has "moral stature", his every word "listened to" and "considered".........but in the Bangkok Night, he's just another punter, wandering around taking it all in without a care in the world..........

Girl from Phnom Penh........

Girl from Phnom Penh

From the backwoods of Cambodia's poorest rural district, her father dead, her mother scratching by on a few hundred dollars a year, two young children by a father who long ago disappeared, she works along Avenue Pasteur in the Phnom Penh night, hoping one day she will be trafficked to Thailand to work in the brothels of Hat Yai, Pattaya or Bangkok where all her dreams can come true.......

Enthralled Farang in the Land of Smiles......

Enthralled Farang in the Land of Smiles

Living in the Land for Smiles for many years now, he has become enthralled by the wonder and glory............full of entropy and submission........his forcefulness and sense of mission dissipated and lost........

Girl from Buri Ram....

Girl from Buri Ram

In Thailand, all the girls want to be "white"........the sale of whitening cream products is a major growth industry.....all the tv commercials, fashion magazines and billboards feature girls so white they are practically transparent.......but for the Khmer girls from Buri Ram, dark brown, connected to the earth, raised in the dusty farmland along the border with Cambodia, there is no escape........

Crazy English Guy Screaming in the Bangkok Night

Crazy English Guy Screaming in the Bangkok Night

Standing on a cluttered street corner near Soi Cowboy, surrounded by tuk tuk drivers, bargirls, beggars and punters, he's screaming "Fuck You" at all who pass.........

"Infuential Person" in the Bangkok Night

"Influential Person" in the Bangkok Night

In Thailand, there are certain persons who are "influential".......intelligent, powerful, full of energy, desire and greed......surrounded by others who watch, listen and carry out their commands......often in silent ways, hidden from public view, imposing order on an otherwise chaotic world........

American Philanthropist in the Bangkok Night...

American Philanthropist in the Bangkok Night

His whole life, he's wanted to do good....he worked hard in school, got a scholarship to the best university, married a solid woman and helped raise 3 great kids.....every day, week, month and year, he's always tried to act in an exemplary manner......and now there he is in the Bangkok Night, looking around in wonder and astonishment, feeling dis-oriented, lost and ill-at-ease........

The Radiance of the Bangkok Night

The Radiance of the Bangkok Night

People often wonder what exactly is the Bangkok Night...........is it a radiant center of light, color, excitement and pleasure, lighting up and energizing an otherwise cold and lifeless Universe....or an immense Black Hole sucking human desire and longing into a void of nothingness...........

Ladyboy at the Grace Hotel....

Ladyboy at the Grace Hotel

At the Grace Hotel on Soi 3 in Bangkok's Sukhumvit district, there are thousands of Islamic males....from Iran, Saudi, Oman, Kuwait, Qatar, UAE, Sudan.....and swarming around them in the hotel's lobby and nightclubs as well as in the surrounding streets are hundreds of females, some from Thailand, others from Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Moldova......many of them overweight, well past their expiration date....and plenty of ladyboys too....not petite and feminine, but tall, muscular and raw............

Chechen Gangster in the Bangkok Night....

Chechen Gangster in the Bangkok Night

He grew up in Grozny as it was being pulverized by Russian Spetsnaz shock troops.........most of his family is dead and the world of his childhood no longer exists...he lives back and forth between Bangkok and Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Azerbaijan....moving girls, drugs, weapons, gold and cash.....

Portrait of Lek Nana

"Portrait of Lek Nana" - Chris Coles

A Muslim from India who started from scratch in Thailand, carefully saved his money, bought land and built buildings, collected rents and bought more land and more buildings, ended up being one of the original founders and financiers of the Thailand "Democrat" Party, donated prime land for the "Democrat" Party headquarters, became a "Democrat" Party cabinet minister, a Deputy Foreign Minister, the "Democrat" Party's Secretary-General and "Democrat" Party Senior Advisor for Life. 

When Lek Nana died, then Prime Minister Abhisit and many other Thailand "Democrat" Party luminaries attended his elaborate funeral to "pay respect".....he was buried with "Royal Dirt" and full honors........leaving behind to his heirs hundreds of millions of dollars, maybe even a few billion, no one knows for sure.

Without any trace or eulogy or word of gratitude to the hundreds of thousands of young females and thousands of ladyboys, mostly from Thailand's poor northeast and northern areas whose "service" contributed so much..............

Yet Another Smiling Farang in the Land of Smiles....

Yet Another Smiling Farang in the Land of Smiles....

So many smiling farangs in the Land of Smiles........did they smile so much before they got there or learn how to smile after they arrived......

Thailand Journalist Number One

Thailand Journalist Number One

His head is full of ideas, no matter how received or out of date, confident and vocal, a self-important scribe telling the world what is "real" and "not real".........

Ghost in the Bangkok Night...

Ghost in the Bangkok Night

After 20 years in the Bangkok Night, over 5,000 men, tens of thousands of ladydrinks, countless music tracks and short time hotels, hundreds of mamasans, one night she disappeared.......

And came back as a ghost or "phee"....visiting all the old places, the girls and friends left behind, the owners, landlords and mamasans, customers and men........wondering what it all might mean........and when it all might end......

Guardian of the Bangkok Night.....

Guardian of the Bangkok Night

Most of the men are there for relaxation and fun.....sabai & sanuk......while most of the women are there to work......managed, organized, directed & focused.....with daily & monthly targets & quotas.......strict rules.......defined penalties for coming up short........

Ying from the Bangkok Night.....

Ying from the Bangkok Night

She's a Ying from the Bangkok Night, one of the world's most ferocious male-female playing fields, not only surviving but a hi-level hunter, stalking big animals too smart and too successful to know or understand, too slow to escape............

Smiling Farang in the Land of Smiles.....

Smiling Farang in the Land of Smiles

In Thailand and elsewhere a smile can be so simple and yet so complex. After all, what is a smile? Something happy or sad....supplication.....fear......a disguise....a threat.......a glimpse into the inner self....when a soi dog smiles and shows its shiny white teeth, it means Look Out That Piece of Meat Belongs to Me!

HANGOVER III Star After His Last Night Out in Bangkok....

Hangover III Star After Night Out in BKK - Chris Coles

Excited, exhausted, spent and hungover.........is the mythic pull of the Bangkok Night so powerful it will never die?

With millions of dollars in his pocket and another hit film under his belt, the young star of HANGOVER III is on his way back to LA where everyone seems to go home after work to watch their gigantic plasma tv's.........by 10PM, the perfectly paved streets are quiet and empty.

Thai Girl All Lit Up in the Bangkok Night

Thai Girl All Lit Up in the Bangkok Night

She's all lit up in the Bangkok Night, alive, awake, energized, on fire.......hoping to score customer number 3 before she calls it a day........