Tag: Long exposure

PHOTO ESSAY : TIME STANDS STILL

TEXT & PHOTO: PRADITCHYA SINGHARAJ

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I’ve always been interested in how moments and things around us can be captured. Rather than capturing fleeting instances that occur in just 1/100 or 1/1000 seconds, my photographs depict moments that unfold over the course of one second. As a human’s perception moves forward, a nanosecond of time cannot be put on hold, for time and things keep progressing. 

The series of photographs were taken using my own mobile phone, and the results exceeded my expectations. It can easily take a long exposure shot almost anywhere and at any time. Long-exposure photographs used to be nearly impossible to shoot at times when there was too much light or in situations where a tripod would be too impractical. 

The photographs you take reflect who you are. I’ve always thought that lenses and cameras are merely tools and that the genuine beauty of photography rests in its ability to encapsulate the world around us, capturing the very core of humans’ views and feelings. 

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Praditchya Singharaj, Managing Director of Innovative Design & Architecture Co., Ltd., who likes to take photos, listen to music, and is obsessed with building amplifiers.

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PHOTO ESSAY : NIGHT WANDER II

TEXT & PHOTO: MINTRA WONGBANCHAI

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In “Night Wander II”, a sequel to Night Wander, the artist set up and captured images of ordinary daily activities in suburban houses of San Francisco. Taken through windows or gates, the photos show some people watching TV, others reading books or cleaning their houses. While the houses were brightly lit, the photographer was pressing the shutter button in the dark.

In the artist’s viewpoint, the night-time atmosphere and all the lights inside these houses in “Night Wander II” amplify her repression, longing for her family and places in her hometown as well as loneliness and lack of identity resulting from being apart from her loved ones, society and culture.

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Mintra Wongbanchai
This photographer graduate from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) is also the runner-up of Harper’s BAZAAR Canon Fashion Photography Award in 2009. After working as a fashion stylist in Bangkok, she continued her study at the Academy of Art in the City by the Bay where her interest in art photography grew. Currently living and working in the northern Thai province Lampang, Wongbanchai also guest-lectures at Creative Photography Division, Faculty of Fine Arts, Chiang Mai University. Fond of night photography and long exposure technique, she believes the night-time darkness simultaneously conveys solitude and peacefulness.

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