Chris Stowers

Chris left England in 1987, aged 19, clutching a one-way ticket to Karachi. He has lived in Asia ever since. His love of photography began right at the start, hanging out with impoverished freelance photojournalists in war-torn Peshawar, where he was – fleetingly – Official Poet of The Frontier Post.

His 1988 odyssey aboard the Bugis perahu ‘Kurnia Ilahi’ – a month long sea voyage he documented on just two rolls of colour slide film – led to his first story and photos being published, and the beginning of his career in photography. It has now become the subject of his debut book ‘BUGIS NIGHTS’.

He joined Panos Pictures Photo Agency in 1992. Photography assignments and wanderlust have taken Chris to over 70 countries, so far, and his work has appeared in all manner of publications, from Newsweek and Forbes to National Geographic Traveller and the New York Times. He has photographed guidebooks from San Diego to Saigon, and all points between.