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“Shoot, Ask … and Run!” The advice given aspiring British
photographer Chris Stowers, at the start of his travels, has never
seemed so valuable. Buffeted by tempestuous forces of both
personal and international affairs, he flees from the Jakarta mafia
through the jungles of Borneo, is tear-gassed by riot police in
Manila, and crosses an imploding Soviet Union by train, only to
be abducted by a group of heavily-armed Serb militia.
In this, the 2nd volume of recollections from diaries he kept at the time,
Stowers paints a harsh, humorous and very human picture of a life
continuously on the road, in trouble, and out of film. Based in
Hong Kong, before digital cameras came along and changed the
medium of photography forever, this is the reality of media life
in Asia – and beyond – during the boom years of the early 1990’s.
