Old Morning Market, Vientiane 2000
Hmomg ladies love silver jewellery
Jumbo tuktuk is mainstay of rural patient transport, Pakse 2002
Patients and family camp outside Champasak Provincial Hospital 2002
Rice noodle soup 6 hours after lip repair. Relatives supply meals in hospital.
Cleft lip repair about 4 days postop
Happy mother
Father with his sons 2 years after their cleft lip repairs
Hospital facilitiies have improved markedly since 2002
Savannakhet
Wat Phou, a 10th century Khmer temple, Champasak
Incense offerings to Buddha
The holes in the steps were to facilitate transport of stone by elephants. Wat Phou
Young street cleaners
Ice-cream festival, Vientiane 2006
Medical supplies for Phonsavan mission 2006
Phonsavan main street 2006
A young patient waits her turn.
Documented and ready for surgery
Working in Phonsavan Hospital 2006
Anaesthesia tube allows access for cleft repair
Post-op patients share a bed in Recovery area
Mekong fish
Baci celebration meal
Baci ceremony
Buddha survived the destruction of the Muang Khoun temple by American bombing in the late 1960s.
Bamboo pipe smoker, Xiang Khouang
While the kettle boils...
Lao bride
Wedding guests, Vientiane, Lao PDR
Young girls enjoying wedding reception
2 teams at work. Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane. 2009
Postoperative ward dressing change
Patient's husband sleeps by her side. Some patients prefer mats on the floor too.
Attacked by bear! New upper lip formed from forearm skin.
Pha That Luang, Vientiane
Transport options, main street, Luang Prabang 2009
Many hands make light work, Mekong River, Luang Prabang, 2009
Pounding rice to make Lao-Lao (rice whisky)
Lao-Lao pot still
Calling the monks to prayer
Dawn alms giving, usually fresh rice or fruit, in Luang Prabang
Limestone mountains surround Vang Vieng, north of Vientiane
Buddhist cave shrine
Building the Mekong River levee at Vientiane
The meat market, Phonsavan 2012
Silk production at the Mulberry Silk Farm, Xiengkhouang Province
The mysterious Plain of Jars, Xiangkhouang Plateau near Phonsavan
The duck keeper
Lunch at the market, XiengKhouang Province 2012
Recycle and reuse - old bomb casings as footings
Delicious snack, Luang Prabang province village
Phonsavan
Hmong Village, Northern Laos
Almsgiving, Phonsavan 2012
Temple ceremony to unveil new statues
Vegetable garden on the river bank
Bath time
Village kids, Luang Prabang Province, Laos
"Lonely Planet" cover retake
Luang Prabang 2013
Temple repairs, Luang Prabang
Mowing the lawn, Plain of Jars, Phonsavan
Homeward after a day in the fields
Young monks relaxing on waterfall near Vientiane
Putting up temple ceremony decorations
I've studied enough
Xaysomboun town in Xaisomboun Province, previously a special zone, due to continuing conflict
Parents look after their child's intravenous infusion, Xaisomboun Hospital
Hospital in Xam Neua
Xaisomboun Market
Xaisomboun province is in mountainous central Laos
Pop the balloon and win a prize
Band performing at night festival, Xaisomboun
Festival food
New lip
New hand
After the ceremony
Temple makeover
Morning Market, Vientiane 2016
Connections
Keeping young patients occupied
Let sleeping pigs lie. Remote northern Laos
A healthy trekkers dinner
Riding to school
Vietnamese travelling salesman sells pots in northern Lao village
Lao coffee for westerners
washing day
Coffee on the go
The village people
Broom maker for the Chinese market
Muang Ngoy
Hydro-electric system for local village
Roof repairs for temple drum
Cleaning the schoolyard
Outside Mahosot Hospital, Vientiane 2017
Knee was bent due to burns contracture
Release of burns contractures which had restricted neck and shoulder movement
Concentration
