Brent Lewin is an award-winning photographer whose work has been published in many periodicals, including the Toronto Star, Utne Reader, Maisonneuve, Wanderlust, pdn, Verge, Eye Weekly, Now Magazine and Geist. For more writing and photography on Lewin’s work in Thailand and other countries, see brentlewin.com.
The Asian economic crisis of 1997 crippled real estate development in Bangkok, but it also provided unexpected opportunities for some of Thailand’s poorest people—and their elephants.
