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PHOTO ESSAY : FADE #01

November 5, 2022
by Ketsiree Wongwan
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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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PHOTO ESSAY : WHEN I WAKE UP, I WILL DREAM OF BEING A CHILD AGAIN

October 22, 2022
by Ketsiree Wongwan
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TEXT & PHOTO: RATTHEE PHAISANCHOTSIRI

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This series of photographs was taken between 2010 and 2011 when I was living in Japan as a fresh graduate. Like many students of product design at the time, Japan was a dream destination for many to pursue their education. It was a time when the Minimalist movement was flourishing.

But the transition from adolescence to working age—the period we call “coming of age”—turned out to be a lot more complicated than I had imagined. It wasn’t easy to strike a balance between reality and fantasy, between being realistic and prejudice-free. My own coming of age was filled with too many questions. Circulating in my mind were thoughts about life and death, as my body grew weaker by the day. How could I endure this feeling when the time has come for me to start living my life in the way that society has already determined?

It has been over twelve years and the childhood dreams I once had are no longer lucid like they used to be. Looking back to those memories in an attempt to compare them to the present I’m living in, in days when my age has progressed closer to the people in these pictures I took, in the time when technology has made all of our lives more convenient, but how we are living as human beings doesn’t seem that different from those days in the past. We are still struggling with the happiness we find ourselves with each passing day.

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Ratthee Phaisanchotsiri is an industrial designer and one of the members of the Issaraphap Collective who splits his time between Chiang Mai and Bangkok.

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PHOTO ESSAY : IN THAT MOMENT

March 20, 2021
by Ketsiree Wongwan
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TEXT & PHOTO: WARUT DUANGKAEWKART

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During certain moments in life, there are times when we feel everything around us feels so special that we want to document them in the form of photographs. It’s because these moments may only happen once, it becomes breathtaking but at the same time so calming and captivating that we want to spend as much time as possible taking in every detail of the moment. An experience we can perceive through all our senses; not only through sight but by hearing, smelling and feeling every aspect of its presence.

To feel a sensation isn’t merely about waiting for it to appear before your eyes or having others guide you towards the experience. There are, ultimately, several elements involved in the formation, selection, observation, embellishment and appreciation of what is in front of us, in the particular moment when the world stays still—the time when all of the elements fall rightly and truly into place.

Trees growing outside the window, curtains bathed in the sun, grass swaying in the wind, mushrooms blooming underneath a damp log, an ordinary-looking wooden house standing by the road, a sea of trees and mountains, a fading image of leaves, an unfamiliar town, a noticeable presence of grass flowers and images we see but deliberately choose for them to remain unclear.

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Warut Duangkaewkart is a creator under the name ‘lowerline studio’ with combined interests in architecture, art, and life. He likes to observe his surroundings, questions what he sees and finds answers from different beings.

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