Through Siam with a camera - John Thomson by Deborah Ireland

John Thomson is one of the great figures in the history of photography, an extraordinary photographer, traveller, author, translator and teacher. In 1865 he travelled to Siam and photographed the King and his subjects creating a unique record of the country.

This talk by Deborah Ireland revisits the original negatives to see Siam as recorded by Thomson’s lens in 1865.