Justin Mott is a documentary, editorial, and commercial photographer based in Hanoi, Vietnam and works throughout SE Asia. He recently shot a travel story in Phuket, Thailand for New York Times.

I’ve done a few of these 36 hour stories now for the Travel section of The New York Times. They are loads of fun, sort of like a scavenger hunt for photographers. I’m given a list of places to shoot, usually around 15.The Travel editor I worked for in the past left in December so I was working with the new one. I really wanted to impress her because the Times always has fun travel assignments. Most of the time the assignment is 2 days shooting and 2 days traveling so you have to hit the ground running. Phuket is a pretty big island so it required me traveling all over the place by motorbike trying to figure out the most visuals places and when to shoot them.

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