Tag: photography

PHOTO ESSAY : BANGKOK URBAN STORIES

September 25, 2021
by Ketsiree Wongwan

TEXT & PHOTO: HIROTARO SONO

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I always try to find the stories hidden in the details when I walk in urban spaces.
Especially about the relationship between spaces and people.

“Why does this space seem comfy?” “What element makes an atmosphere like this?”

Urban Spaces are created by humans. So it is full of someone’s ideas.
And the amount of ideas are too much to understand in a second.
So if we want to enjoy our urban walk, we have to fully concentrate to catch these ideas and stories hidden in an urban space. 

I shoot when I feel like I am able to notice stories,
for my inspiration to design architecture,
and for my happiness to be shared with someone.

This is my point of view.
And this is my Bangkok.

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Hirotaro Sono (Hiro) is a Japanese Photographer one who captures and shares the emotion of space and people. and an Architect one who designs the emotion of space and people.

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PHOTO ESSAY : YOUR HOUSE DOWNSTAIRS

September 4, 2021
by Ketsiree Wongwan

TEXT & PHOTO: JONATHAN TAN

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Singapore is known for quality public housing where more than 80% of Singaporeans stay in Housing Development Board (HDB) flats. What is lesser known are the architectural wall features at the void decks of HDB flats. This “hole-in-the-wall” feature comes in various shapes and bright pops of colours which jazzes up the void decks, common spaces for Singaporeans to gather. While they are more commonly found in older flats, these “holes” are recognisable by Singaporeans as part of Singapore’s landscape and heritage.

This series aims to compile these “holes” that are found in what Singaporeans would colloquially describe as, “your house downstairs”.

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On his occasional free time, Jonathan dabbles in creative side projects. His photography works like “Singapore Pantone” and “Your House Downstairs” gained coverage across local and global publications. Most of his work stems from the belief that you can find art all around us, especially in the sights that often go unnoticed just because we see them every day.

Jonathan currently works in advertising at 72andSunny Singapore as a Senior Brand Manager. Despite being in a non-creative role, Jonathan believes that everyone has a creative side.

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MEMOYOU (MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING)

August 2, 2021
by Ratchadaporn Hemjinda

SANTI LAWRACHAWEE, GRAPHIC DESIGNER AND CO-FOUNDER OF PRACTICAL DESIGN STUDIO, EXPLORES AND DIVES DEEP INTO THE TRACE OF HIS MEMORIES OF THE PAST DECADE IN HIS LATEST EXHIBITION FEATURING A SERIES OF BLACK AND WHITE PHOTOGRAPHY CAPTURING THE LINE OF THE RIVER AS WELL AS HIS LARGE AND THICK NOTEBOOK

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PHOTO ESSAY : ON THE WALKWAY

July 15, 2020
by pratchayapol


TEXT & PHOTO: PAHPARN SIRIMA CHAIPREECHAWIT

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Traveling gives us a chance to encounter the extraordinary and create memorable experiences. This week’s PHOTO ESSAY captured by Pahparn Sirima Chaipreechawit, who is one of the members of Street Photo Thailand and a photo curator, will present to us what she had witnessed along the way.
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“…Is apart of life, captured and reflected in photographs, forever telling our stories.”

pahparnsirima.com
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PHOTO ESSAY : NIGHT WANDER II

July 13, 2020
by pratchayapol

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.

mintrawongbanchai.com
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PHOTO ESSAY : GREENERY IN BANGKOK, DREAM OR ILLUSION?

June 13, 2020
by admin

TEXT & PHOTO: PUVADOL SAENGVICHIEN

 

Packed in the concrete residences, Bangkokians have been sought for a dream of getting access to nature. However, there is a lack of parks in urban areas when compared with the ratio size of residences, roads, and commercial buildings that have been deliberately increasing nowadays.

What Bangkok has always been portrayed to us is the illustration of a green city fantasizing the chance of community getting closer to the environment. Those images were consistently used for promoting in several real estate advertisements. Moreover, many construction sites were decorated with vinyl posters simulating the green ambience in order to highlight their image towards the projects in a district and connect the individuals’ utopia dream of the city.

If we take a closer look, we will be able to steadily observe the transformation of the green decorations throughout the time. The messages included inside those images will appear to change differently from the beginning. The result seems to be a reflection of the city people’s intense desire for the true nature in order to recompense their shallow life. This reveals the illusion dream of city people that is still quite far away from reality.

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Puvadol Saengvichien was born and raised in Samut Prakan Province. He holds a  Bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a Master’s degree in Business Administration (Marketing). For 18 years, he had been working in the field of architecture, retail and product management. He left the corporate world behind and devote most of the time to pursue his passion for Photography.

puvadolsaengvichien.com
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