Propaganda and the Cult of the Kim/daily life in the Hermit Kingdom Hay-on-Wye Literary Festival The Pleasance Theatre, Islington, London Stowe School Buckingham Royal Geographical Society, Norwich Royal Scottish Geographical Society - Aberdeen, Dundee, Dunfermline, Glasgow, Edinburgh SmokeSilver Adventures, Norfolk ABC Breakfast Club, Fulham, London Heritage Hundred Society, Rutland Jermyn Street Theatre, Piccadilly, London Art-in-Action, Oxford Amazing talk - unbelievable if it wasn't true Brilliant "concerned photojournalism" Learned such a lot! The talk and pictures were wonderful and fascinating. Gripping One of the most extraordinary events I have ever been to; congratulations on telling the story A fascinating, chilling yet horribly funny talk - you made it so accessible and visually riveting. I have never been to a talk quite like it - indeed there possibly isn't a talk quite like it - but I can't stop thinking about it A battery of facts; an incredible tour de force of reportage and geography
	De Montfort University, Leicester (Guest Speaker - Cultural Exchanges Week 2011) Phoenix Square Film and Digital Media Centre, Leicester The Reportage Club, Leicester UNESCO/HPA: Kunming, Yunnan Province, China Cardiff University, Faculty of Journalism and Media Studies The Frontline Club (Foreign Correspondent 's Club), Norfolk Place, London W2 I really did think the experience - in the most profound sense of the word - of these sometimes harrowing, always beautiful and poignant images, accompanied by your scrupulous worldwide erudition on the cultures, ranked for me with Edward Curtis (1868 -1952) photographer of the American West and of Native American peoples. And (Sebastiao) Salgado sits in my living room, another kind of archive. JAMES THACKERA: US Author and Director/Survival International. At Frontline Club, February 2012