Austin Bush
60/364 Moo 5 Senanikhom 1
Charakhebua, Ladphrao
Bangkok, 10230
Thailand
Home office: (+66 2) 907 0926
Mobile: (+66 81) 617 9304
austinbushphotography@gmail.com
www.austinbushphotography.com

Biography

After graduating from the University of Oregon in 1999 with a degree in linguistics, I received a scholarship to study Thai at Chiang Mai University, and have remained in Thailand ever since. After working several years at a stable job, I made the questionable decision to pursue a career as a freelance photographer/writer. This choice has since taken me as far as northern Pakistan, and as near as Bangkok’s Or Tor Kor Market. The bulk of the work I do is food-related.

I write and photograph for Lonely Planet, and my writings and photos have been published in magazines and newspapers such as appetite, Bangkok Post, Chile Pepper, Insight Guides, lifestyle + travel, The Nation, Olive, Orient-Express, Sawasdee, ThaiDay and The Wall Street Journal Asia.

For examples of my magazine and newspaper work, the following articles are available for download in PDF format:

• “Breakfast in Trang”, ThaiDay July 2006
• “eat away: Bangkok”, Olive, January 2007
• “Eating the Island”, ThaiDay July, 2006
• “From Kebab to Nan”, Chile Pepper, February 2007
• “The Lost Pepper of Cambodia,” Chile Pepper Feb 2008
• “Phnom Penh’s Golden Breads”, appetite, April/May 2007
• “Real Phat Thai”, Intermezzo, December 2007

I have contributed photography and/or text to the following books:

• 
  Lonely Planet’s Vietnam guidebook.
• 
  Insight Guide’s Thailand’s Beaches and Islands.
• 
  Lonely Planet’s Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos & the Greater Mekong guidebook.
• 
  Lonely Planet’s Bangkok Encounter guidebook.

And I have contributed to various online publications, including:

• American Express
• Fit for a King: Eating Local in Luang Prabang. www.lonelyplanet.com
• Food for Life: The Diet of the Hunzakutz. www.lonelyplanet.com