Photographer Philip Blenkinsop has spent much of the last decade documenting the Asian experience. Leaving The Australian newspaper in 1988, he traded his car for a Leica and moved to Thailand to work as a freelancer in places very different from downtown Sydney. He emerged from what he describes as “riding a storm”, with enough publishing support to have the stories of the disempowered in Asia heard. 

"People tend to think your responsibility as a photographer is to your readers and the people who are buying the magazine. But of course it’s not. Your responsibility is to the people you are photographing. "

"It is an honour to give a voice to people, and to bear that responsibility, but it is also a challenge. Because you realise that you are responsible for people’s lives "