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PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Chew PHOTOGRAPHY Mark Chew

More Shameless Self Promotion

This year I’m especially pleased because my picture is not of helmeted technicians piloting their multi-million dollar preying mantis up and down a rectangle of carefully chosen flat water… but of my friends in Lamu, racing dhows with just as much passion, spending very little money, relying on physical prowess and using their hearts as much as their heads to remind us what sail boat racing should be about.

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