Category: PHOTO ESSAY

PHOTO ESSAY : URBAN LIGHT

June 13, 2026
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TEXT & PHOTO: PATTARADANAI FANGNOI

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This photographic series explores the shifting relationship between light, objects, and people within the urban landscape, drawing from the photographer’s quiet observations of everyday life. Here, light operates as both subject and device. It reveals and conceals, allowing objects and figures to appear as traces of existence briefly suspended in time. Rather than constructing a linear narrative, the series opens a contemplative space in which viewers are invited to read the images through their own perceptions and experiences.

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Pattaradanai Fangnoi is a photographer whose practice centers on people and places as they emerge within the unchoreographed rhythms of everyday life, observed through a younger contemporary perspective.

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PHOTO ESSAY : SOMETHING IN EVERYTHING

June 5, 2026
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TEXT & PHOTO: SUKRIT PATJUNTADUSIT

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“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.

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PHOTO ESSAY : 10.96%

May 30, 2026
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TEXT & PHOTO: JAD JADSADA

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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.

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PHOTO ESSAY : SEOUL

May 23, 2026
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TEXT & PHOTO: RYO KATSUMURA

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This series is part of my first photo zine, SEOUL, which was published in February 2026. Rather than photographing famous landmarks, I walked through the city and captured quiet moments of light, reflections, and small scenes that simply felt right to me. I photographed while staying close to the feeling of ‘something good’ that I quietly carry within myself.

Since its launch, the zine has been featured by Taiwanese media and is now available at bookstores in Korea, Hong Kong, and Thailand. However, I plan to continue expanding its reach in the future.

For further interest, in Thailand, you could check a link here:  facebook.com/share/p/1C8cmXQKBF

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Ryo Katsumura is a photographer based in Tokyo. He takes photos with a quiet sense of trust and a feeling of ‘something good’ that remains the same within his feelings, even when the place changes. It could be said that he was drawn to nothing but the subtle presence that drifts through each city.

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PHOTO ESSAY : CHROMATIC: A JOURNEY THROUGH NEIGHBORHOOD COLOR

May 9, 2026
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TEXT & PHOTO: MICK SONCHAROEN

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Sometimes, we overlook the value and beauty of the places we have become familiar with.

Much like the stories of Bangkok’s historic commercial neighborhoods, Song Wat, Phahurat, and Pak Khlong Talat, which may seem ordinary to many, yet often hold hidden perspectives waiting to be discovered.

CHROMATIC: A Journey Through Neighborhood Color is a photographic exploration and visual documentation of Bangkok’s old-town districts through a distinct lens, emphasizing the coexistence of past and present.

The unique blend of Thai, Chinese, and Indian cultures has been woven together and expressed through the vibrant colors embedded in these communities, not only in objects and architecture but also in the colorful diversity of everyday life, commerce, and activities that coexist harmoniously.

Looking deeper into places we have grown accustomed to can reveal entirely new perspectives of familiar surroundings. Because places are defined by people and the rhythms of life that continuously move within them. The charm created by the coexistence of the old and the new is what brings these neighborhoods back to life once again.

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Mick Soncharoen is a marketing strategist and photographer with over 20 years of experience. With a background in architecture, his work reflects a strong interest in form, space, and texture, often expressed through geometry, structure, and the interplay of light and shadow. His practice spans architecture, street, and portrait photography, alongside internationally recognized work in action sports.

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PHOTO ESSAY : WHITHER RIVERS FLOW

February 21, 2026
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TEXT & PHOTO: XIMENG TU

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As an architectural photographer, the sound of my shutter serves as a way for searching for the city’s textures, which have been increasingly drowned out by the noise of superficial culture. I grew up with the echo of ferry whistles and the soot-laden air along the banks of the Jialing River, in a factory zone built during China’s Third Front Movement. These memories became the roots that later sharpened my sense of difference when I later moved north. When I eventually returned to Chongqing, at a time when the city had been reduced to a mere ‘backdrop’ for tourists, a feeling of estrangement set in. This sense of dislocation led me to realize that the camera lens must function as a bridge across time, not merely as a device for recording images. 

Under the pressure of capitalism, which compresses cities into commercial symbols, I came to see Chongqing as a living architecture: a vessel that holds human relationships and interactions. Over the past three years, I have employed photography as a form of ethnographic fieldwork, seeking out forms of ‘quiet resistance’ of ordinary people in overlooked alleys and forgotten corners. These traces of life are placed in dialogue with an almost surreal modernity. 

The title Whither Rivers Flow reflects my belief that urban imagery should be like the river itself, carrying the weight of history while reflecting the spectrum of human existence at once. In the end, people, like currents, come and go, leaving stories behind and taking new ones with them, forever flowing between the mountains and the water.

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Ximeng Tu (屠栖蒙) is an architectural photographer from Chongqing, People’s Republic of China. His work explores architecture, everyday life, and nature along the city’s two rivers, documenting the relationships and interactions between these elements through the traces of urban and local development.

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PHOTO ESSAY : SAME PLACE, SAME TIME

February 7, 2026
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TEXT & PHOTO: KANTAWEE JINTANON

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“If you can photograph street life in the same place continuously for one year, you will be able to photograph anywhere in the world,” they say. At first, I did not quite understand what this meant. That changed after I spent a year photographing Lumpini Park every morning after finishing my workout. Only then did the meaning of that sentence begin to reveal itself.

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Kantawee Jintanon is an office worker and software tester with a deep passion for photography. He approaches each image with a deliberate sense of creativity, seeking to make every photograph distinct, regardless of where it is taken.

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PHOTO ESSAY : LOST IN THE MOON

January 10, 2026
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TEXT & PHOTO: CHATURON YADAM

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To the moon.
You whom I can only gaze upon from here.
Up there, with only stars and sky for company, it must be terribly lonely. 

Have you ever found yourself in love with the moon?
I am one of those who have fallen for it completely.
Perhaps I could even be called a rabbit hopelessly enamored with the moon. 

Many say the moon is a symbol of the unattainable, something we are destined only to admire from afar, never to possess. 

She is like the distant glow of the moon itself, surrounded by countless rabbits, longing and reaching, and by a hundred thousand stars. Yet she remains softer, more luminous than any light among them. 

Even when one longs to ascend, rabbits are timid creatures.
And still, deep down, I wish to hold her. If only in the form of an image, that would be enough. 

I am the one who pairs the moon with its companions. As much as I wish to stand beside her myself, it is simply not possible, because there is no one to take the photograph, hahaha. Even so, if I cannot claim her, there is still joy in simply looking up from here. 

In the end, my moon may not be as grand as others.
But I can photograph her in my own way, even so.

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Rong, Chaturon Yadam is a merchant with a deep passion for photography, working across a wide range of genres. He is particularly drawn to minimal photography, valuing simplicity and clarity, and often composes his images with generous negative space to create a sense of calm and visual cleanliness. His practice frequently returns to the moon and the sky, as he seeks to preserve the feeling of wonder he experiences each time he looks upward, quietly captured and held within the frame of a photograph.

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PHOTO ESSAY : COINCIDENCES IN THE STREET

December 21, 2025
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TEXT & PHOTO: KANTAYA NEW

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This photo essay collects unplanned street moments where timing, color and gesture align by chance. 

On streets I know well, I look for visual connections between people and their surroundings: someone walking or pausing in front of a mural or poster, a passer-by echoing an image on a wall, or a person whose movement suddenly fits the background. 

I am drawn to scenes that make me laugh, pause, or stop and wonder, “Did that really happen?” The photographs invite a second look at ordinary places and how coincidences can change the way we see the street.

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Kantaya New is a Thai–Singaporean street and conceptual photographer based in Singapore. Her street work focuses on playful visual coincidences in public space. 

Her work has been exhibited internationally and has received recognition in competitions such as Sony Alpha: MX Street Photo Contest (1st Prize, 2025), Women Street Photographers Artist Residency (Shortlisted, 2025), Fujifilm Moment Street Photo Awards (2nd Prize, 2024), LensCulture Critics’ Choice (Winner, 2023) and Sony World Photography Awards (Shortlist, 2022 – Open Competition and Alpha Female Awards).

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PHOTO ESSAY : LAYERS OF THE CITY

December 14, 2025
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TEXT & PHOTO: PUTTIPONG NIPATUTIT

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This series was created through in-camera multiple exposure, a technique that lets me view the city from an angle that feels unfamiliar. The intention was never to drift into fantasy. Rather, it is to suggest that urban life contains more strata than what we usually allow ourselves to see: roads cutting across towers, strangers passing one another, and the interplay of light, color, and sound that unfolds all at once, without choreography. 

By layering these moments into a single frame, the technique becomes a way of recording both the city’s daily commotion and the small, almost imperceptible rhythms of order that sit quietly beneath it. 

What I hope for is simple: that the familiar city might be seen again, but felt differently. 

All photographs in this series were taken using the multiple-exposure function, with no digital retouching. I began exploring film-based multiple exposure in 2020, long before realizing that many digital cameras offered the same capability. That discovery eventually led me to experiment across both formats, and I continue to work with film and digital today.

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Puttipong Nipatutit (Amp), a passionate photographer and owner of a small digital print studio.

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