Phi Phi Island, Thailand.

Long Boat, Phi Phi Island, Thailand.
� Diane Richard

There are countless times that I have gone back to Phi Phi in thought, this place lost in time and so peaceful where I spent two weeks, just two years, almost to the day, before the Island was swept by the Great Tsunami.

It is in this place, after four weeks of travel from Singapore to Malacca, through Malaysia, that I finally found rest - rest of the deepest, most satisfying kind.

It is in this place that I met and photographed people, cats, dogs and roosters. After two weeks, I felt that I knew everyone. I saw its ocean at rest, more calm and gentle than ever I saw the sea...



I ache to think that so few survived.

Phi Phi will never be the same without them.