TOM BARNES

Foreign Correspondents Club


1999 – 2001
pen and watercolor

“It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there – with your eyes open – and lived to see it.” 

Anthony Bourdain

"After hearing so much about the FCC in both Phomn Phen and Hong Kong from Dick Jones, I finally got to spend time at them 1998 and 99. The FCC in Cambodia truly lived up to it's reputation of being the greatest bar in the world at that time. "

Tom Barnes