TEXT: NATHANICH CHAIDEE
PHOTO: CHANATHIP KAEWSUK
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An image of a family; a father, a mother and a son together at a zoo. A role transitions. From the role of a son to now, the role of a father, I find myself looking at the place with a different perspective and feelings. The excitement from being able to see many species of animals inside a curated space created to imitate their natural habitats has now become a question. That thin line between a real and simulated forest, is it a boundary or actually imprisonment?
Accumulating life anecdotes affects one’s view of concepts. From their beautiful figures, I look deeper and see the doubts in the animals’ eyes. It was as if the animals are trying to communicate something with me, a human who is staring eye to eye with them.
The photographs convey the actual silhouettes visible through the eyes. Once brightness is adjusted; some brightened, some darkened, to accentuate the beauty of their natural forms and their ‘eyes’; the eyes that never lie and are waiting for you to see, to feel and to interpret them with your own individual experiences.
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Born and raised in Bangkok, Chanathip Kaewsuk graduated university with a degree in communication design from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang. Being a photography major graduate, he has continued his career as a photographer and opened Mashlab, a company specializing in photography, ranging from the creative process to commercial retouching. Inspired by an exhibition at Seoul, South Korea back in 2011, he decided to expand his personal photography collection to Fine Print by Mashlab where he creates photographs for interior decoration with the belief that photographs can, too, bring life to a space.