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BIOPHILIA UNLOCK
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TAIPEI FASHION WEEK (AW26)
TAIPEI FASHION WEEK (AW26) SERVES AS A PIVOTAL PLATFORM FOR FASHION EXPERIMENTATION IN ASIA, WHERE MATERIALS, INNOVATION, AND LOCAL IDENTITY ARE WOVEN INTO THE LANGUAGE OF GARMENTS
MAIBANTAT DESIGN OFFICE
BANDIDTAT TOSAYANCHAI, FOUNDER AND ARCHITECT OF MAIBANTAT DESIGN, REPURPOSED SALVAGED MATERIALS FROM HIS FAMILY’S OLD HOUSE TO CONSTRUCT HIS NEW OFFICE, REINVENTING THE TRADITIONAL ‘HALF-WOOD, HALF-CONCRETE HOUSE’
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PHOTO ESSAY : SOMETHING IN EVERYTHING
TEXT & PHOTO: SUKRIT PATJUNTADUSIT
(For Thai, press here)
“The whisper of the factories is louder than the cries of the villagers.”
The sentence comes from a community representative in Rayong, a province where residents have long lived with the consequences of industrial pollution. Factory smoke carrying foul odours and unexplained chemical leaks into the sea becoming recurring incidents, returning seemingly every year. Marine life has begun to disappear. Fishermen are losing their livelihoods. Concerns about public health have intensified alongside rising cancer rates.
SOMETHING IN EVERYTHING is an experimental photo essay developed through fieldwork in Rayong. Working with photographic film, Sukrit Patjuntadusit employs the process known as ‘film soup.’
For this series, the film was exposed not only to light, but to the residues of industrial harm: wastewater flowing from factory drainage pipes into the sea; water from a treatment pond that had leaked into community waterways; chemically contaminated soil from a rubber plantation beside a factory that had previously caught fire; ash from chemical drums; and crude oil collected by villagers after the 2022 oil pipeline leak washed ashore at Mae Ramphueng Beach.
Once the film was developed and the images began to emerge, the photographs revealed the material trace of these effects. Colours became distorted. Chemical residues left visible stains. Acidic compounds corroded the film, damaging and deforming its surface. Through this experimental process, the work makes perceptible the possibility that what corrodes the film may also have the capability to affect the human body.
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Pao Sukrit Patjuntadusit, also known as SiiXTY-4 (64), is a photographer and photographic artist. He currently works as a freelance photographer across commercial and event-based projects. As an artist, Pao is drawn to environmental questions, traces of human activity, and the fragile boundaries of what it means to be human. He lives in Bangkok, a city dense with civilization, noise, and disorder.
PEDRO TEACH ME HOW TO PAINT
WHEN PAINTING IS MORE THAN JUST PAINTING, BUT A CONVERSATION WITH A SELF ONCE LEFT BEHIND, ‘PEDRO TEACH ME HOW TO PAINT’ BY UNCHALEE ANANTAWAT IS NOT JUST AN EXHIBITION, BUT A SPACE WHERE SHE CAN REDISCOVER HER PAST SELF
COOHOM AI
COOHOM PRESENTS COOHOM AI, A TOOL THAT HELPS TRANSFORM COMPLEX DESIGN WORKFLOWS INTO A FAST, ACCURATE, AND READY-TO-USE DESIGN PROCESS
STEFFEN LARBIG
EXPLORE THE ROLE OF LIGHT + BUILDING IN A WORLD WHERE SUSTAINABILITY, ELECTRIFICATION AND INTELLIGENT INFRASTRUCTURE ARE KEY DRIVERS OF THE GLOBAL BUILDING AND LIGHTING INDUSTRY, THROUGH AN INTERVIEW WITH STEFFEN LARBIG
PHOTO ESSAY : 10.96%
TEXT & PHOTO: JAD JADSADA
(For Thai, press here)
This photographic project began with a loss of momentum, a moment when the impulse to take pictures no longer came naturally. I thought that starting a project might make picking up the camera feel easier again. Over the course of the year, it taught me that street photography relies not only on experience, but also on chance. There were days when I walked for hours and found no image that felt right. On others, only a few minutes were enough. This unpredictability is part of the enduring appeal of photographing the street every day.
This series forms part of 10.96%, a photobook project by Jedsada In-ek, built around the simple discipline of taking one photograph each day for an entire year. From the 365 images produced through the project, Jedsada selected and published 40 photographs that he considered his strongest, representing 10.96 percent of the whole/
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Jedsada In-ek, also known as Jad Jadsada, is a street photographer and the founder of 365 Days Street Photography. He is currently working on the photobook 40/365 Days Street Photography.
LE LABO: THE ESSENCE OF SLOW PERFUMERY
