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Hanoi-based photographer Jamie Maxtone-Graham displays his latest work in “The Desiring Garden” at Kathmandu Photo Gallery.

Offering a different view of the intensely urban Vietnamese capital, the collection is a series of portraits of Vietnamese from various walks of life with the backdrop of an exotic natural environment. Maxtone-Graham call it as a “Rousseau-like play on an environment in which certain indigenous species of plants, certain items of human utility, certain sources of nourishment and the people who interact with all of these things”. He created the garden and decorated it with flowers, fruit, vegetables and animals purchased in open-air markets or from street vendors.

The show runs until December 27. For more details, visit Kathmandu-BKK.com or www.JamieMaxtoneGraham.com.

 

This is Michael

Michael Jackson’s fans in Thailand are thrilled by the newest exhibition at Madame Tussauds in Bangkok. The king of pop’s wax figures are on display until December 26, with more than 90 other wax figures.

On display are three Jackson waxes celebrating key stages in his career, from the Jackson 5 years to the “Bad” era and finally “This Is It”. The “Jackson 5” figure has afro hair style and wears a golden yellow shirt costume in a singing pose, while his figure from his “Bad” days is dressed in a red long-sleeve T-shirt and black pants. They are on loan from Madame Tussauds in London. The “This Is It” Michael is part of the permanent collection of the Bangkok gallery and was first unveil here in 2010.

For more information, call (02) 658 0060 or click www.MadameTussauds.com.

 

The immortal James Bond

More waxworks are on display in at Madame Tussauds in London, which has re-dressed its figures of Dame Judi Dench and Daniel Craig in honour of the latest James Bond movie “Skyfall”.

Craig’s 007 wax figure is attired in a navy single-breasted Tom Ford tuxedo, white cotton dress shirt and black grosgrain bow tie, while Dench, as Bond’s boss M, wears a black woven Armani suit, collarless silk blouse and silver mac coat.