Luke Duggleby

Photographer

www.lukeduggleby.com

NGO/DEVELOPMENT

Location: Bangkok, Thailand

Nationality: British

Biography: Luke Duggleby is an award-winning British freelance photographer who has been based in Bangkok, Thailand, for more than 15 years. He works predominantly in Asia but also in Africa and further afield shooting documentary, portraiture and editorial... read on

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The Thai Environmental Agency collects soil samples at a polluted site to find out where the polluting comes from. Chachoegnsao, Thailand.

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A worker from the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) sprays a narrow street after a dengue fever outbreak. Bangkok, Thailand.

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A worker empties a box of fully grown crickets ready to be frozen and turned in to food supplements. Chiang Mai, Thailand.

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A protest against mining projects by villagers in NE Thailand. Loei, Thailand

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A collaboration between NGO agents and the Mekong River Navy led to a bust of this pickup containing 130 dogs just as it was about to load them on to a boat. Nakhon Phanom, Thailand

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Thai workers pull tuna into nets in the hold, where the temperature is minus 22 degrees Celsius. The large ship is docked just outside Bangkok and will spend one week unloading hundres of tonnes of tuna. Samut Prakan, Thailand

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A premature baby receives UV treatment to treat his jaundice at the Mae Pa Health Clinic. Located inside Thailand on the Thai-Myanmar border and part of the Shoklo Malaria Research Unit the clinic offers free pre and post natal health care for remote communities living within Myanmar's Karen State who are unable to access adequate health care.
Mae Sot, Thailand

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Large areas of forest logged to make way for plantations. Cardamom Forest, Cambodia

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In a house Eity Rani, 14, and Shobo Rai, 8, do their homework by the light of an oil lamp. Life is much harder for children who were born in to enclaves. To go to school their parents must pay money under the table and receive a fake address. Debiganj, Bangladesh

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A Vietnamese farmer drops fertiliser on her paddy field in Central Vietnam near the city of Hue.

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Dr. Thep Chalermchai, PhD, 46 years old, and a Research Trail Physician who specialises in Internal Medicine talks with a patient. He has worked at the Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre in Bangkok for 13 years. Bangkok, Thailand

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A surviving baby Siamese crocodile are weighed, measured and inspected by team members of Fauna & Flora International. Koh Kong Province, Cambodia

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Por Sakmi looks out of a house in his village of Na Nong Bong. One of the complaints by the villages was that a gold mine allegedly poisoned certain rice fields and water sources due to waste run-off that is full of contaminants such as arsenic and cyanide. Loei, Thailand

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Bunsri Mamak, 50, takes an X-ray to see the effect of the disease on his lungs at the weekly Melioidosis clinic at Sapphasit Prasong Provincial Hospital. Because of the slow diagnosis of the disease he almost died and had to spend 13 days in ICU at this hospital. Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

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Mobile Malaria Worker Chuun Thy treats a patient at his work station at the malaria Post at Srae Champa on the Laos/Cambodia border. Steng Treng, Cambodia

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After a raid by the Cambodian military and park rangers on illegal sassafras oil distilleries, two arrested culprits, one Cambodian and one Vietnamese national, are taken to holding cells in the provincial capital of Pursat for questioning and prosecution. Pursat, Cambodia

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A major industry that enslaves thousands of people are the brick kilns. The work is hard and dangerous and millions will work in such conditions for years without any pay. Sindh, Pakistan

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A crocodile farm in the Cambodian province of Kompong Speu. With around 1000 animals occupying only 3 pens, farms like this supply the demand for crocodile skin. Interbreeding hybrids is rampant to increase crocodile sizes. Kompong Speu, Cambodia

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Sugar cane plantations are another industry that has large numbers of bonded-slaves. The people seen here have been rescued or escaped from their landlords and now work in a 'safe' environment receiving their daily wage. Sindh Province, Pakistan

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Member's of the Njau community women's group cut up a large sheet of plastic that has been donated to them by an airline that flies in and out of Gambia. The women will use this plastic to make bags and jewellery which will then be sold to visitors. Njau Village, The Gambia

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Mrs. Jiraporn Sripol, a former office cleaner at Mae Moh power plant, lies sick with cancer inside her home. It is believed the dust from the power plant led to her sickness. Lampang, Thailand

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A young boy helps his mother sort out the insects caught that night before getting ready to go to school. Buriram Province, Thailand

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A nurse inspects a sick child brought to the Mae Tao clinic from inside Myanmar. Mae Sot, Thailand.

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Trawler fishermen unload their catch at dawn. Phuket Harbour, Thailand.

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Cambodian Buddhist monks and local people bless large trees by wrapping orange cloth around them and praying. Following uncontrolled forest destruction in the Central Cardamom Protected Forest (CCPF) a eco-warrior monk movement has begun whereby monks and villages try to protect areas of forest by blessing trees to deter would-be loggers. Koh Kong Province, Cambodia

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Burmese fishermen working all night on a Thai trawler boat off the coast of Phuket. Thailand is the third largest exporter of fish in the world after China and the US. Its fishing fleet is vast, but years of unregulated trawling has causes incredible damage to fish stocks. Phuket Island, Thailand

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Melioidosis victim Garn Wongsuvan, 82, rests in his home after being diagnosed several months ago. Mr Garn has Leukaemia and usually doesn't go anywhere. But one day when feeling better he went to walk in his rice fields to get some exercise. That is where it is believed he caught the disease from. Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

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Rescued during a recent bust on a collection centre that was about to send over 700 dogs to Laos, the dogs are now unloaded at the Government dog shelter at Nakhon Phanom. Nakhon Phanom, Thailand

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In the southern region of Krung, next to the border with Senegal two girls repair and untangle lines of oysters. Naturally the oysters harvested here grow on the roots of mangrove trees but with the changing tides caused by climate change and illegal logging of the trees oyster collecting has become must harder and the rewards much less. The Gambia

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An anti-mining community celebrate their 're-taking' of a stone mine after 3 decades of fighting to close it down. Nong Bua Lam Phu, Thailand.

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Mae Moh coal burning power plant releasing smoke from its stacks at dawn. The power plant turns off most of its the smoke in the daytime then starts again at night. Lampang, Thailand.

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A worker inside a high-tech cricket farm in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

Public Story

NGO/DEVELOPMENT

Credits: luke duggleby

Date of Work: 12/31/69 - Ongoing

Updated: 05/11/21

Archived as: Action, Activism, Agriculture, Animals, Civil Rights, Climate Change, Community, Conservation, Disability, Discrimination, Documentary, Editorial, Education, Environment, Forest, HIV/AIDS, Human Rights, Landscape, Minority, Peace, Photography, Photojournalism, Portraiture, Water, Womens Rights, Workers Rights

A selection of work shot for NGO's, Corporate Social Responsibility projects and Developmental work for clients such as USAID, Greenpeace, Winrock International, Fortify Rights, World Wildlife Fund, Malaria Consortium, PepsiCo, Climate Heroes, GAIN Alliance and Protection International.

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TEARSHEETS

PORTRAITS

SINGLES

THREE DECADES OF AN ANTI-DAM STRUGGLE

WOMEN HRD'S IN THAILAND

A Precious Land

SOUTHEAST ASIA'S DENGUE EPIDEMIC

For Those Who Died Trying

The Wamon Anti-Mining Walk

Protectors of the Forest

Cambodia's Cardamom Forest

Sri Lanka's African Diaspora

A Village Under Siege

Sewing a Message

Dagestan

SOUTH ASIA'S AFRICAN DIASPORA

A Damaged Delta

Thailand's Illegal Dog Meat Trade

Pakistan's Salt Mines

Emptying the Seas

FROM NO MANS LAND TO THE UNKNOWN

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