South Thailand

The limestone karst of southern Thailand is one of those landscapes that looks constructed. The rock formations rise straight out of the water along the Krabi coastline and around Railay Beach, their vertical walls covered in jungle down to the waterline. From above, the geometry is almost abstract. At water level, from inside one of the sea caves looking out, it becomes something else entirely. This project was shot across the Andaman coast, moving between the aerial perspective of the drone and the ground level of the beach and boat. Longtail boats anchored in the bay, macaques working the rocks at low tide, a barn owl motionless in a crevice. Then the light shifts and everything becomes about the sunset: a catamaran in silhouette, the horizon dissolving into orange, the karst towers turning dark against the sky. Southern Thailand at its most photogenic and its most quiet, often within the same hour.