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177 Nations of Tasmania Photography and Storytelling Exhibition - Highlights so far
The 177 Nations of Tasmania Photography and Storytelling Exhibition started on February 4. Since then Andrew has photographed around 40...
Mark Thomson
Feb 284 min read
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The 177 Nations of Tasmania Photography and Storytelling Exhibition has begun !
We have now completed the first week of running the pop-up studio in the Packing Room Gallery, in the Henry Jones Art Hotel , so I...
Mark Thomson
Feb 102 min read
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Unveiling the Unseen: 177 Nations of Tasmania's Photo & Storytelling Project Revealed!
177 Nations of Tasmania is proud to announce a new collaboration with photographer and author Andrew Wilson that will use photography...
Mark Thomson
Dec 9, 20242 min read
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Podcast highlights for June : Benin, Tunisia and Israel
The recent podcast episodes involved one that was 11 months in the making, and another came together in a matter of days. Two of them...
Mark Thomson
Jun 27, 20243 min read
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Podcast highlights for May - Escaping ethnic cleansing and surprising romances
A somewhat provocative heading perhaps, but then 2 of the recent episodes have involved Bosnia Herzegovina and Bhutan. In both countries,...
Mark Thomson
May 15, 20243 min read
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Podcast highlights - Armenian farming blueberries on King Island and professional volleyball in Estonia
Things have been a little slow with the podcast in the past few months, but should be picking up a bit more over the next month with some...
Mark Thomson
May 1, 20242 min read
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Celebrating 100 episodes of 177 Nations of Tasmania
Having reached 100 episodes/nationalities on the podcast, I thought it was a milestone worth celebrating and I invited participants to...
Mark Thomson
Mar 19, 20242 min read
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Podcast highlights - The Austrian Alps, Aged Care in Singapore and a childhood in PNG
It's been an interesting first month or so on the podcast in 2024, with three quite contrasting stories from Austria, Singapore and Papua...
Mark Thomson
Feb 7, 20242 min read
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Podcast highlights - Stories from three different continents
My most recent podcast episodes were with three different women from three different continents, and perhaps as geographically apart as...
Mark Thomson
Nov 23, 20232 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania Highlights : Stories of romance and travel adventures
I've done another three new episodes in quick succession, all from Europe, but from quite disparate parts. After a succession of...
Mark Thomson
Sep 11, 20232 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania podcast - Recent highlights
The last few months have been pretty productive and yielded some interesting interviews from both similar and contrasting parts of the...
Mark Thomson
Aug 31, 20233 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania podcast in 2022 - looking back at the achievements and challenges
It's always interesting to look back on what you've achieved during the year, and when I look at the gallery of photos of just some of...
Mark Thomson
Dec 31, 20225 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 63 - Samoa and family
My interview with Loni was my first with someone from any of the Pacific Island nations, an area I've been wanting to cover for a while...
Mark Thomson
Jul 31, 20223 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 55 - Iraq and a touch of Palestine
There have been numerous interviews where I have felt like there was so much more we could have talked about and that my final edit...
Mark Thomson
Apr 14, 20223 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 54 - Singer and jeweller from Slovenia
This was my first attempt at interviewing a couple, I hadn't really been able to do it before easily, but now I have a new microphone...
Mark Thomson
Apr 2, 20223 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 52 - Beautiful Bolivia
Sometimes in these interviews that I do, the thing that I think is going to be interesting, doesn't end up being much of a focus but then...
Mark Thomson
Mar 24, 20222 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 51 - Conflict in the Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo is a big country, the second-largest in Africa, and also one of the most populous. It's also rich in...
Mark Thomson
Mar 24, 20223 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 50 - From a divided South Africa
It's interesting that when I sit down with people for the podcast and ask them to tell me a bit about their life story, there is often a...
Mark Thomson
Mar 9, 20224 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 46 - The complexities of Ethiopia
It is, of course, impossible to fully encapsulate all the aspects of a nation or culture in a single podcast, especially in regards to a...
Mark Thomson
Feb 10, 20223 min read
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177 Nations of Tasmania - Episode 43 - A long-lost LIbya
This was the second interview I did in Devonport and I had heard a bit of Piera's story in advance that I thought it had some features...
Mark Thomson
Nov 9, 20213 min read
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