Sook Hotel | Photo courtesy of PASA Architects
PASA ARCHITECTS
Tag: experience
YONIAM
EXPLORING OLD BUILDINGS, PERSONAL MEMORIES, AND THE STORIES OF SING BURI AND BANGKOK THROUGH THE EYES OF YONIAM
PHOTO ESSAY : THE UNINVITED
TEXT & PHOTO: PLOY NIPATUTIT
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This photographic series began with a question that emerged from my everyday life: Why is ‘not being invited’ such an uncomfortable yet intriguing experience?
I discovered that ‘not being invited’ is remarkably complex. Hidden within it are feelings of awkwardness, alienation, loneliness, and worthlessness, as well as the sense that one is intruding on someone else’s space. More than that, it can also harbor feelings of self-pity.
Yet the experience evokes an entirely different response when it happens to someone else. I found myself reacting in the opposite way, sometimes looking at the uninvited with derision or amusement, as though they were ridiculous or even pitiful.
We are naturally more sensitive to the hurt when we are at the center of such a situation. When it happens to someone else, however, we tend to be less empathic.
At the same time, ‘not being invited’ can take on another meaning. It may represent a conscious decision to remain within one’s own space—a choice that everyone, including myself, has every right to make.
Exploring ‘not being invited’ through the photographic series The Uninvited has led me to reflect on freedom, self-acceptance, and the possibility of choosing a path in life without allowing the gaze of others to determine its course. The series also invites others to consider what the phrase might mean to them from their own perspectives.
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Ploy Nipatutit previously worked on the editorial team of a publishing house and is also an author. She began taking photographs in 2022, initially as a hobby and as a means of personal healing. After discovering that photography shares a connection with writing, she began pursuing the medium more seriously. Her current practice centers on photographic series driven by storytelling, through which she seeks to develop increasingly complex and multilayered narratives.
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