TEXT & PHOTO: THANNOP AUTTAPUMSUWAN
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What can be seen clearly may not always be understood emotionally.
Ascend, exist, perish…
Objects, places, and spirits… time is always passing, and we can’t really tell how long things can last. Unknowingly, things may be fading away at any moment. But everything we have come across has something we can experience differently as an individual through the way we see, interact and touch. From what one particular thing is or could be at a particular time, to the process of self-reflection that occurs along the way, things seem to change or fade away in one’s memories.
There are certain things that people experience collectively, which can also be varied by the difference in time at which the experience unfolds. The artist uses black and white film photographs and photography techniques, including darkroom processes, to convey viewers’ perspectives and to reveal discernible, tactile meanings of how things emerge, sustain, and cease to exist. The process is reliant on each viewer’s personal anecdotes, helping them express the stories of their interactions with the photographs.
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Thannop Auttapumsuwan graduated from Silpakorn University’s Faculty of Architecture. He is currently working as an architectural photographer and exploring personal projects with black and white film cameras and darkroom processes.
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