Luke Duggleby

Luke Duggleby

Luke Duggleby

Bangkok, Thailand

Luke Duggleby is an award-winning British freelance photographer who has been based in Bangkok, Thailand, for over 15 years. Focusing on Asia, he has worked for some of the most globally respected media publications and NGO's producing documentary and portrait photography. When not on assignment, he works on his own projects that focus largely on the struggles of human rights defenders and community environmental groups.

His work has been exhibited in the US, across Europe and Asia. And he has spoken about his work at a variety of locations including Tedx Khon Kaen, Nelson Mandela University South Africa, The University of York Human Rights Hub and SOAS London. In 2018, he was awarded for his contribution in covering human rights issues in Thailand by the National Human Rights Commission of Thailand.

Luke has published two books, most recently Salz der Erde (Salt of the Earth) published by mareVerlag in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland and Il Lato Invisible del Paradiso - Pellegrinaggi ai Confini del Tibet (The Invisible Side of Paradise - A Pilgrimage into Tibet's Borderlands) was published by Egon in Italy in 2009.

He is the founder of The Sidi Project www.thesidiproject.com which documents the African diaspora of the Indian Ocean and a founding member of the media platform HaRDstories which publishes long-form feature-stories about human rights issues and human rights defenders in Southeast Asia.

Luke speaks English and Thai and lives in Bangkok, Thailand, with his family all year round.

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Chern Kaewluang, 59, holds a half eaten pineapple discarded by a raiding elephant.
Local farmers burn their crops of corn during harvesting.
Local farm labourers work in a corn plantation harvesting corn.
A Burmese migrant worker working in a plan oil plantation.
Large swathes of eucalyptus plantations.
Workers repair a water pipe in a drainage reservoir adjacent to a large gem mine just outside the town of Chantaburi.
A wholesale flower delivery at Bangkok’s oldest flower market.
Two elderly women, one with a walking stick, navigate a busy road in an attempt to get a taxi in Central Mumbai.
Burmese migrant workers sort fish at Phuket Port.
Local women dance during the parade of the annual Bun Bang Fai festival in Chaiburi town. Bun Bang Fai, or the Rocket Festival, is an annual event held in Northeastern Thailand.
Chartsiri Sophonpanich, President of Bangkok Bank, is interviewed in the Foreign Correspondents Club of Thailand.
Jindarat Rampaipanom, 20, stands in a chilli field next to her village.
Two male elephants fight on a main road in the early morning, causing traffic to stop.
A remote twisty road winds its way through the green hills as rain approaches.
After a serious outbreak of dengue fever in the Chinatown area of Bangkok in which a man died, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration came in to fumigate the area and advice locals on possible breeding ground of mosquitos.
Employees of the Jim Thompson Silk Company work inside the mechanised reeling room at the Jim Thompson silk factory in Nakhon Ratchasima Province.
New recruits and experienced Thai forest rangers learn patrol techniques during a 4 day forest ranger refresher/training course in Ta Praya National Park.
Tha Takiap, Chachoengsao province. Forest rangers and community volunteers patrol farmland around their village to expel a herd of wild elephants.
Local villagers buy pre-cooked food from a market stall in Lak Sao in eastern Laos.
A Burmese migrant worker prays at a Buddhist shrine inside their workers camp.
A Burmese migrant worker takes a rest after working all day in a rubber plantation.
A Burmese migrant worker works at dusk in a rubber plantation.
Every International Labour Day on May 1st labour unions and migrant workers support organisations, particularly from Myanmar, take part in parades and demonstrations around Bangkok.
Isatou Ceesay stands at a waste dump in the town of Birkama.
Salt workers clear a large salt pan of prepared salt on the Little Rann of Kutch.
Two brothers shovel salt from Lake Binagadi in to a trailer attached to the back of their old Soviet-era car.
A salt worker walks through a salt pan where the salt is ready to be harvested.
Camels carrying salt bricks walk for two days to deliver the salt.
Salt workers break up a large slab of salt from the ground in the Danakil Depression.
A salt worker holds a huge slab of salt she pulled out of Lake Katwe in Western Uganda.
A village head takes part in an annual Buddhist ceremony on the River Mekong that pays respect to the river in Chai Buri district.
A man who's land was flooded by a dam constructed nearby stands in what was previously farmland. Si Saket, Thailand.
Cricket Lab began operation in 2018 and produces high quality cricket flour by the ton in its modern facility in Chiang Mai Province of Northern Thailand.
Portrait of Anglican Priest and Exorcist Erich Junger in a church in Bangkok, Thailand.
A palm oil plantation on Sumatra Island in Indonesia.
Workers at a palm oil processing plant on Sumatra Island in Indonesia.
A worker at a palm oil plantation on Sumatra Island in Indonesia.
Workers at a palm oil plantation on Sumatra Island in Indonesia.
Workers at a palm oil plantation on Sumatra Island in Indonesia.
Workers at a palm oil plantation on Sumatra Island in Indonesia.
Workers select garlic cloves at the NRF processing plant in Samut Sakhon, Thailand.
Workers clean vegetables at the NRF processing plant in Samut Sakhon, Thailand.
Sturgeon swim in one of the large pools inside a caviar farm. The farm holds over 1600 fish and is predicted to produce an output of 1.5 tonnes of caviar per year.
Alexey Tyutin, owner of Thai Sturgeon Farm Co. Ltd stands in the main pond area which holds over 1600 sturgeon fish.
Michelin star Thai chef Thitid Tassanakajon at his new restaurant Lahnyai Nusara in central Bangkok.
Quality inspection of a fully assembled Haval H6 Hybrid SUV model on the assembly line for Great Wall Motors Ltd at the company's plant in Rayong.
On the assembly line for Great Wall Motors Ltd.'s Haval H6 Hybrid SUV at the company's plant in Rayong. Opened in mid-2021, the plant is only the second.
On the assembly line for Great Wall Motors Ltd.'s Haval H6 Hybrid SUV at the company's plant in Rayong. Opened in mid-2021, the plant is only the second.
On the assembly line for Great Wall Motors Ltd.'s Haval H6 Hybrid SUV at the company's plant in Rayong. Opened in mid-2021, the plant is only the second.
Opening the door at the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong.
The patisserie at the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong.
A VIP guest gives her details in a suite at the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong.
Setting up one of the restaurants at the Mandarin Oriental in Hong Kong.
Exchange Square in the main financial district of Hong Kong.
Farmer Phisit Akhahat walks through his mulberry tree plantation in Nakhon Ratchasima Province. He has worked with Jim Thompson's silk company for over 15 years buying eggs from them and selling back the finished cocoons.
Employees of the Jim Thompson Silk Company inspect a delivery of silk cocoons at the Jim Thompson silk factory in Nakhon Ratchasima Province.
An employee of the Jim Thompson Silk Company works inside the mechanised spinning room at the Jim Thompson silk factory in Nakhon Ratchasima Province.
Shot for Bloomberg doorman waits to open the door to customers at the Jim Thompson flagship store in central Bangkok.
An employee checks a weaving machine inside the mechanised machine weaving room of the Jim Thompson factory located in the town of Pak Thong Chai in Nakhon Ratchasima Province.
A shop assistant re-arranges silk products at the Jim Thompson flagship store in central Bangkok.
A pepper farmer harvests pepper from her families plantation in Kampot Province.
A pepper farmer harvests pepper from her families plantation in Kampot Province.
A worker smells a marijuana bud at Supasiri Farm in Lam Plai Mat District of Buriram province, Thailand.
Harvested marijuana buds are trimmed at Supasiri Farm in Lam Plai Mat District of Buriram province, Thailand.
Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput, governor of the Bank of Thailand, stands for a portrait in Bangkok, Thailand.
Sethaput Suthiwart-Narueput, governor of the Bank of Thailand, stands for a portrait in Bangkok, Thailand.
Potato farmers in their potato fields in Tak Province, Thailand.
Potato farmers in their potato fields in Tak Province, Thailand.
Workers inside a Pepsi bottling facility in the Philippines.
Inside the Rolls Royce production facility in Singapore.
Inside the Rolls Royce production facility in Singapore.
A workers flies a drone to view the cassava field.
A tapioca flour processing plant.
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