Journalism
Tom Sanders
Writer
United Kingdom
I am a writer, editor and freelance journalist.
You can find samples of my work below.
I can be contacted at tomsanders91@gmail.com.
United Kingdom
I am a writer, editor and freelance journalist.
You can find samples of my work below.
I can be contacted at tomsanders91@gmail.com.
Journalism
Our journey took shape in the small hours of one morning in January. Dom, our de facto leader, had spent a week staying up until dawn, obsessively scrolling through Google maps, firing coloured pins into lakes and rivers that could be potential destinations.
Director Tran Anh Hung 's 1995 film Xích Lô is widely regarded as his masterpiece. It's a seminal piece of filmmaking, presenting a lurid and picture of an under-documented stage in the country's history, beauty and ugliness both in abundance in every oversaturated frame.
Dressed in traditional Chin textiles, a cup of tea in one hand, Anna Sui Hluan cuts a demure and impressive figure. In the refined interior of Le Planteur Restaurant & Lounge, we sat down to discuss her life, faith, and her many projects, all with the same fundamental goal - improving the lives of disadvantaged ...
This piece is really two things: a eulogy for three places in Saigon that will soon be gone, and a commentary on trends in the city that are emerging. Saigon does not need misty-eyed nostalgia any more than it needs sneering expat dismissal.
Who is James Cheese? A western pilgrim who first brought cheese to the shores of Korea? Is it, perhaps a cryptic reference to our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ? One thing is clear: James Cheese is a mystery, wrapped in an enigma, wrapped in a frankly disturbing amount of cheese.
If you're white, racist and fed up with the grinding oppression of living in the West, where you're forced to rub shoulders with a small proportion of people who are not the same race as you, there's a new solution: move to Africa.
When New Jersey native Art Hongpong married into one of Myanmar's prominent business families and moved to the country's commercial capital Yangon in 2012, the future of his ice carving business seemed as fragile as one of his legendary sculptures.
Adam Palmeter is a busy man. When he's not hosting open-mics, organising the Saigon Skill art showcase, or deciding which of his thousand identical NY baseball caps to wear each day, Adam makes vivid, abstract-expressionist art. Adam's newest project, In Stalls, pushes Adam's work forward not just in execution, but by a unique choice of gallery available to the fine public of Saigon.
San Zarni Bo’s destiny was foretold. At the tender age of six, a traveling astrologer read his horoscope and informed him that he would become a fortune teller himself.
Brighton three-piece Spit Shake Sisters play a messy blend of garage and psych, evoking Ty Seagall as much as the Stooges in their reverb-drenched, lo-fi sound.