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PHOTO ESSAY : AYUTTHAYA, 2015 – 2021

August 21, 2021
by Ketsiree Wongwan
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TEXT & PHOTO: NAWAPAT DUSDUL

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A series of photographs of architectural structures that have emerged in Ayutthaya between 2015 and 2021 have been captured by smartphone cameras during my personal visit to the sites. Having worked as a media person in the architectural and design industry, and being an Ayutthaya local, I have willingly and pleasurably volunteered to represent the team and interview the people who are the minds behind these projects.

These include Assistant Professor Boonserm Premthada of Bangkok Project Studio (The Wine Ayutthaya and The Artisans Ayutthaya), Siriyot Chaiamnuay and Arisara Chaktranon of Onion (Baan Pomphet and Sala Ayutthaya) and Noppachai Akayapisud of Space+Craft  (The Summer Coffee Company Old Town).

For each meeting, I wanted to capture each of the works from my own perspective. At different times of day, the light was being cast on these magnificent built structures—the spirit of Ayutthaya can be beautifully and diversely interpreted and portrayed. I took these pictures as a native citizen of Ayutthaya who sincerely hopes to see this great city welcome more places and architectural creations that will become part of its architectural heritage. As well as to coexist alongside the world-heritage sites that call the old capital home.

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Nawapat Dusdul is currently a contributor for Baanlaesuan, an avid storyteller of stories he wants to tell and most of the time, stories he is assigned to tell. He loves photographing nature where a change of posture is not needed, architecture that is never camera-shy and objects that can stay still and move without him asking. 

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PHOTO ESSAY : FEEL COMPLICATED

April 3, 2021
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TEXT & PHOTO: ANAN NARUPHANTAWAT

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Graphical photography has always been my favourite image style because it’s simple yet conveys so many emotions. It was sheer coincidence during a typical workday that I came across unusual angles of an interestingly looking building in Bangkok’s Soi Ari neighborhood.

Web of lines sprawled over the building’s glass exterior in the seemingly endless length and countless layers. The striking appearance captivated me, and emotionally I found myself being pulled in, following its every dimension. The building’s intriguing complexity made me feel as if I was diving deep into my own emotional pit, and it was then that I realized—perhaps the complexity of the most complicated piece architecture is nowhere near that of the human psyche…

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Anan Naruphantawat, a freelance photographer with a passion in nature and design who loves to convey his feelings and emotions through the images he captures. He has a Facebook page for his architectural photography called Studio.Horizon.

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PHOTO ESSAY : FLUKE

February 27, 2021
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TEXT & PHOTO: WATTIKON KOSONKIT

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“Work, save up some money and start traveling.” A piece of advice from my former and last boss. There’s nothing unusual about an architect and his architectural pilgrimes, with old favorites and new works of architecture being the desired destinations. But for someone who typically works until the last minute before going on a trip, the equipment I tend to grab with me are usually somewhat unfitting for the inclination to photograph all the gorgeous built structures I encounter. The journeys where I get to see incredible architecture become something imprinted in my memories. While I cannot fully capture the beauty and magnitude of the architecture I admire, my endeavor to memorize all their possible details often leads me to notice the people being inside and outside of buildings and their interactions, manners and behaviors.

I’ve begun to pay more attention to the people. As someone who’s far from being called a professional photographer, to wait for a subject to perfectly enter a frame is practically impossible. When going on each trip, from picking up the wrong lens for my camera to capturing the right moments, I don’t know what else to call these pictures rather than a fluke.

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Wattikon Kosonkit is a chubby architect who contains over 100kg and works as a draft man in FATTSTUDIO. He always has travelled to his favourite architecture and interesting in some kind of photography.

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PHOTO ESSAY : AKITA GEOMETRY

November 6, 2020
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TEXT & PHOTO: NATHANICH CHAIDEE

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The journey to visit a childhood friend from elementary school (Anothai Oupkum – curator) who has temporarily relocated to Akita prefecture of Japan, introduced a new travelling experience where the absolute seclusion made it feel like there were only two of us roaming places.

In the beginning of March last year (2019), we travelled from the city center to Akita’s famous milk onsen. Normally, there would be a bus that would take us from the station to the destination. But for some reason, the bus we were on that day needed to make a stop at Lake Tazawa. While my friend had been to the onsen a couple of times herself, this was the first time she visited the stop.

There were only the two of us and a couple of men and women who got off at this particular spot. Even as the prefecture’s popular lake, the point we got off was far from being a landmark on the tourist map. The excitement of making a surprising detour, the view of the mountain resting beautifully before our eyes, the crystal clear water of the lake, the thin layer of snow coating the ground’s surface, and of course the conversation between long lost friends has been imprinted in our hearts. 

After going over the photographs, we noticed a connection between various geometric forms, serenely intertwined. 

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Born and raised in Chiang Mai, Nathanich Chaidee moved to Bangkok to pursue her studies at the Faculty of Veterinary Science, Chulalongkorn University. Her interest later shifted to design, following by the decision to study and eventually earn the second bachelor degree, this time in interior design, from Bangkok University’s Faculty of Architecture. Chaidee is currently a freelance writer with the area of focus in architecture and interior design, and still enjoys film photography, which has long been her favorite hobby since middle school.

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PHOTO ESSAY : GEOMETRY IN STREET PHOTOGRAPHY

October 10, 2020
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TEXT & PHOTO: SITTICHAI MAIKUPANDIN

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Whenever I walk in the streets, taking photos, I like to look around and capture images in geometric forms, whether they’re triangles, rectangles, circles, or different kinds of lines, and use them to tell stories in my photographs. They bring engaging and aesthetic elements to the pictures.

Thai photographers refer to this type of photography as graphic street, a long-existing technique where architectural forms become an integral part of a photo. I like to use different shapes, lines, colors, lights, and shadows to create simple compositions, keeping the frame minimal and organized while adding the street elements by creating a connection or with the presence of a subject that brings a particular narrative to my photographs.

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Sittichai Maikupandin makes a living from creating and selling video clips on Webstock. An avid street photographer since 2018, he wishes to continue developing his works, travel to many different places, and take more photos.

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PHOTO ESSAY: (VESPA PRIMAVERA)RED, POWER(RED) by LOVE

September 29, 2020
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TEXT: SUTEE NAKARAKORNKUL
PHOTO: KETSIREE WONGWAN

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art4d revisited AUBE for ‘(Vespa Primavera)RED, A Love for (RED),’ the reveal of (Vespa Primavera)RED. Powered by love, this model of Vespa scooter is a collaboration between Vespa and (RED) in the hope of helping, educating, and supporting the Global Fund’s anti-HIV campaign. The event featured some of Vespa’s iconic scooters and remarkable decorative space that’s definitely worth mentioning.

The decoration enlivened the venue with the “POWE(RED) by LOVE” theme with ‘red’ being the primary color that brought about a striking contrast to AUBE’s impeccable, white space. Massive white balloons with geographic patterns scattered around the central court, welcoming guests as soon as they set foot inside the event. Apart from their roles as decorative objects that called for Instagram snaps, the balloons’ shape and silhouette fused surprisingly well into the architectural masses and lines.

Other details of the decoration include the thoughtfully curated installation of the displayed objects. They accentuated light and shadow’s presence through dimensional interactions with various structural masses and openings, creating a series of appealing spaces that served as perfect backdrops for the guests to strike a pose. The display of scooters above eye level looked anything but awkward, partly because Vespa scooters’ unique shapes and lines correspond beautifully with the curved lines of the architecture. The decoration of the main space welcomed guests with the Afternoon Caffè Party concept that boasted art & deco design, reflecting the Vespa brand’s story and its long-existing connection and appeal to art lovers.

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PHOTO ESSAY : MY WIFE IS A PROP

September 19, 2020
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TEXT & PHOTO: KRAIPOL JAYANETRA

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I like to travel to witness architecture in various countries with my wife as she accompanied me every time I traveled. I noticed that while I was enjoying the architecture that I loved, my beloved wife walked away and yawned. She must have been tired from having to look at the buildings and looking at walls for hours. I, therefore, found the perfect thing for her to do, it is for her to be walking around in my architectural photos. When there is a small prop, or a person in the wide images it looks more lively, right?

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Kraipol Jayanetra is an architect and founder of Alkhemist Architects, a design studio based in Bangkok. An architecture nerd, Jayanetra enjoys watching the lectures of veteran architects on YouTube and dreams to see all the architecture projects he has pinned on Google Maps.

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PHOTO ESSAY : BOUNDARY

August 21, 2020
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TEXT: NATHANICH CHAIDEE
PHOTO: CHANATHIP KAEWSUK

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An image of a family; a father, a mother and a son together at a zoo. A role transitions. From the role of a son to now, the role of a father, I find myself looking at the place with a different perspective and feelings. The excitement from being able to see many species of animals inside a curated space created to imitate their natural habitats has now become a question. That thin line between a real and simulated forest, is it a boundary or actually imprisonment?

Accumulating life anecdotes affects one’s view of concepts. From their beautiful figures, I look deeper and see the doubts in the animals’ eyes. It was as if the animals are trying to communicate something with me, a human who is staring eye to eye with them.

The photographs convey the actual silhouettes visible through the eyes. Once brightness is adjusted; some brightened, some darkened, to accentuate the beauty of their natural forms and their ‘eyes’; the eyes that never lie and are waiting for you to see, to feel and to interpret them with your own individual experiences.

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Born and raised in Bangkok, Chanathip Kaewsuk graduated university with a degree in communication design from King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang. Being a photography major graduate, he has continued his career as a photographer and opened Mashlab, a company specializing in photography, ranging from the creative process to commercial retouching. Inspired by an exhibition at Seoul, South Korea back in 2011, he decided to expand his personal photography collection to Fine Print by Mashlab where he creates photographs for interior decoration with the belief that photographs can, too, bring life to a space.

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PHOTO ESSAY : UNCERTAINTIES OF THEIR HOPES

August 1, 2020
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TEXT & PHOTO: AKKARA NAKTAMNA

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The Democracy Monument (Thai: อนุสาวรีย์ประชาธิปไตย) is a representative that proudly presents Thailand is a democratic country like other developed countries around the globe. But, in fact, it has been interrupted by some powers intermittently and makes it not be completely democracy — 13 coups 20 constitutions since Siamese revolution in 1932 can be outstanding proofs and convey significant messages which probably are better than a concrete monument using for traffic circle or decorating flower pots. This photo series was created by photographing the Democracy Monument image in the television that had glitches displaying distorted waves and missing signals. Thai Democracy is similar to that;   so fragile like a dream, easy to interfere and collapse. Eventually people will be pushed to raise up and smash on the back of the television to get a good picture back again.

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Akkara Naktamna was born in Bangkok in 1979. Started shooting as a self-taught photographer around 2008 influenced by a photo book of Elliott Erwitt and a comedy movie called Pecker. In 2012, he co-founded Street Photo Thailand. Akkara was selected in some finalists of street photography competitions, and photo festivals such as Miami Street Photography Festival 2013, Singapore Photo Festival 2016, Photo Bangkok Festival 2015-2018. Signs — his zine was made in 2016 along with his solo exhibition; it was archived by Franklin Furnace Archive and MoMA Library as part of The Anamorphosis Prize. Akkara created an e-magazine called CTypeMag for promoting interesting photo series around the globe and followed with the 99 Thai New Photographers project. In 2020, Akkara was nominated for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass by Manit Sriwanichpoom.

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PHOTO ESSAY : GOD IS IN DETAIL FOR DAILY LIFE

July 23, 2020
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TEXT & PHOTO: XAROJ PHRAWONG

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The design of architectural details found in Japanese people’s everyday life, whether created by professional architects or local artisans, are all interesting to me. They all seem to go through thought processes that set out to find solutions to different kinds of problem. Many of them embody the Zen philosophy where perfectly hidden in the remarkable simplicity are details so well-thought off and executed. 

 The complexity behind the minimalist aesthetic is what constantly motivates my interest throughout the three years living and travel ling in Japan. Collected and captured along the way is this particular series of photographs.

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Xaroj Phrawong, architect, author and professor at the Faculty of Architecture, Rajamangala University of Technology Thanyaburi is currently pursuing his study in architecture at Kyoto Institute of Technology, Japan. During his time in Japan, Phrawong’s interest revolves around the miscellaneous details both from the artistic aspect and architectural solutions of Japanese architecture he experienced in his everyday life, coincidentally and intentionally.

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