2nd place
silver star award
Richard Humphries
malaysia 
title
Kingdom's Edge
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entry description
Kingdom’s Edge represents British photojournalist Richard Humphries’ journey documenting Thailand’s deep south region. Through his project Richard examines the complex intricacies and subtle incongruities of daily life in South East Asia's deadliest conflict. Nearly 8,000 people have died since the conflict began in 2004, which at that time was the third largest insurgency in the world after Iraq and Afghanistan. However, it remains to this day perhaps one of the world's most underreported conflicts'. Moving away from the mainstream media’s monotonous coverage Richard has found a region that teems and bustles with life and culture. It is a region of trade and commerce, of young people and free wifi, of tea shops and markets. A place where tudong clad girls ride four on a motorbike, where twice a day people freeze on the spot to the sound of the national anthem, and where the call to prayer fills the air five times a day. It is a complex society that is both Muslim and Buddhist, Malay and Thai. It is both old and youthful, calm and restive. It is a place that has more in common with Kuala Lumpur than distant Bangkok. Through this visual narrative Richard presents a timely and alternative view from one of the world’s most underreported conflict zones, a largely forgotten pocket of territory at the farthest edge of the Kingdom of Thailand.about the photographer
I am a British professional photographer with more than 15 years international experience. I specialise in photojournalism and documentary photography. My work is focused on exploring stories that are so often passed by in today's monotonous mainstream media and I am especially interested in social and environmental related stories with a particular interest in identity and borders. I have completed assignments for the following publications and organisations: The New York Times, The Times (UK), Time Magazine, Newsweek, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, Discovery Channel, The Associated Press and UNICEF, to name a few. In 2016 I authored and published my first book “Kingdom’s Edge”. Kingdom’s Edge offers a unique and timely documentation of daily life in the conflict zone of Thailand’s deep south region.back to gallery
