Mother and Son. Si Satchanalai, Thailand. August 2002
A man loves his sweetheart the most, his wife the best, but his mother the longest.
Irish Proverb
I wanted to title this photograph ‘Motorcycle’.
Without a motorcycle, I would not have found myself in the rural interior of Thailand, near the oddly named town of Si Satchanalai. And without that motorcycle, I would not have been stranded directly in front of the home of this family, on a rural road, in the middle of nowhere, with a burst engine gasket. Nor would I have met this beautiful family, whose wife and child entertained me while the husband drove down the road to retrieve the parts needed to reassemble the engine of my motorcycle that lay before me.
And without my bike, I wouldn’t have had the great fortune to stall out in front of the only motorcycle mechanic in the neighbourhood. True story.