Tag: Street Photography

PHOTO ESSAY : ORDINARY

November 3, 2024
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TEXT & PHOTO: KROEKRIT NOPPHAGAO

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Every day I go out to take photos, I choose to look for the ordinary but with a special feeling. I connect nature and human creations through a street minimalist perspective, transforming what we usually see. By viewing the vast city from small angles, we may discover hidden beauty in the corners of buildings, alleys, or on the streets. Perhaps this beauty is not concealed; rather, we often overlook it ourselves.

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Kroekrit Nopphagao is a wedding photographer with an interest in street and contemporary photography.

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PHOTO ESSAY : THE CITY’S COLORS: BANGKOK

September 28, 2024
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TEXT & PHOTO: JULACHART PLEANSANIT

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Bangkok stands out as one of the most fun cities in the world, well-known for its rich cultural mix and vibrant environment. A key element that sets Bangkok apart is its explosion of color, which defines the city’s unique character both day and night.

Color in Bangkok is not just a detail; it plays a crucial role in shaping the city’s atmosphere and identity. The city’s bright colors are evident everywhere, such as advertising signs, street fabric, colorful vehicles, fashion, buildings, and its people. Red, yellow, and blue are among the most prominent, popping up everywhere throughout the city, along with many other exceptional colors.

In street photography, color becomes one of the first elements I look for. It can create a visually striking photo when combined with the right composition. Vibrant colors can also make for a more interesting storytelling narrative in the shot.

This set of photographs shows a striking color scheme while capturing the unique quality of Thainess. Each image reflects how Bangkok’s colors contribute to its lively street scenes and cultural identity, offering a glimpse into the city’s soul through its colorful environment.

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Julachart Pleansanit, Bob, is an event designer based in Bangkok. About a year ago, he took up street photography as a serious hobby. Since then, he’s been capturing the streets of Bangkok through his own perspective. He believes that every street has its own uniqueness. It’s like a treasure hunt for him, in which he tries to find the hidden gems that are hiding in plain sight.

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PHOTO ESSAY : THE FABRIC OF SOCIETY

September 22, 2024
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TEXT & PHOTO: BARRY MACDONALD

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‘The Fabric of Society’ is a metaphor that refers to the underlying structure, relationships and interconnectedness that hold a society together. Just as fabric is made up of individual threads, woven together to create a cohesive whole, the Fabric of Society is composed of various elements such as shared values, norms, laws, institutions, and cultural practices. These bind individuals and groups together, and make us all a part of the common thread of society as a whole.

Phaa Bai (blue & white plastic tarp) is the flag of the working class, but everyone’s life depends on it. Every meal we eat, the food is grown, fished, transported, sold, cooked or eaten with Phaa Bai being involved somehow in the process. All construction, plumbing and electrical work will rely on this versatile material, every building has needed it at some point. All of the things that we buy might have used Phaa Bai for the transportation, storage or even making entire market stalls. Floor, table, walls, roof and all. From simple objects on the street to the most precious Buddhist Statues in a temple, Phaa Bai is trusted to protect them all.

This project is about Phaa Bai, but is also about society as well. Through focusing on Phaa Bai you can see globalisation and homogeny of design, with everyone using the same products from the same suppliers. Environmental issues of plastic production, reuse and upcycling, as well as the Thai flair for improvising materials into new forms and functions. It is also linked to issues with migrant workers and the trades they take up in Thailand, and how they sometimes live in housing constructed with Phaa Bai.

Without it the country would not be able to function, It is literally the embodiment of the social fabric.

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Barry Macdonald (born in 1984) is a freelance photographer from London, England. He started off shooting musicians and found out about the enjoyment of travelling from going on tour with bands around Europe and the USA. His work has evolved into a hybrid of street and documentary. He is interested in sociology and tries to look at culture and human nature through his photography. He has lived in Bangkok since 2022.

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PHOTO ESSAY: SUKHUMVIT- THE THIRD ROAD

May 26, 2024
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TEXT & PHOTO: ADAM BIRKAN

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‘Sukhumvit- The Third Road’ explores the hypothesis that Sukhumvit road is a microcosm of Bangkok, and perhaps society as a whole. Although the road spans from Bangkok to the border of Cambodia (As Highway 3), the section explored in this book focuses mainly on the 14km portion of the road situated within the legal boundaries of Bangkok, from its point of origin at Ploenchit BTS Station, in the heart of the city, to The Chang Erawan BTS Station in the south of the city, just a short distance past the cities legal boundary. The series of images within offer no answers; they simply reveal the breadth of life contained along one road in one city. What the viewer sees and understands is as much a reflection of themselves as it is a reflection of reality. The road, like all roads, is a physical embodiment of the human experience, where struggle and prosperity, industry and history, time and culture coalesce to create a living tapestry. All the while, the unstoppable forces of new generations and the immovable objects of old generations grind away at each other until the end of our time.

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Adam Birkan is a freelance photographer and visual storyteller. He has been named one of Magnum’s 30 Under 30 and PDN 30. He has a Bachelors of Science in Visual Communication from Ohio University and is currently based in Bangkok, focusing on long term, and short term projects. His personal work often takes a macro view of social and economic issues. His focus is on literal and metaphorical juxtaposition and finding subtle moments that, collected together, reveal a broad depiction of accelerated industries and economic disparity.

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PHOTO ESSAY : HUMAN TRACE

September 16, 2023
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TEXT & PHOTO: DITTA SUTHEPPRATANWONG

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We all walk and build our homes on the ground of this earth. We cultivate the land, search for food, nourish ourselves, and lead our lives. Our existence thrives on this planet’s horizontal plane, bound by gravity’s embrace. This place is filled with human traces, unsurprisingly so. 

In every moment of our lives, journeys embarked, endeavors pursued, we have left traces or fragments of ourselves, both tangible and abstract. 

I got curious. I set out on a journey to explore and unravel the depths of human nature.  I hypothesized that through documenting and linking human traces, the nature of humanity may be reconstructed, like assembling Lego pieces.  We gather fragments left behind by others, weaving them into our own, sharing pieces of ourselves, as others do with us. And there are times when we unknowingly leave parts of ourselves behind, along the way. 

This series of photographs captures human traces that have been left on the earth. Through displacement, those traces are emphasized. These images beckon you to reconsider and redefine humans and humanity, with nothing but your own thoughts and judgments. So, have fun.

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Ditta Sutheppratanwong was a student of structures, now a capturer of architectural beauty, an independent artist, and a photographer for W Workspace.

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THAI TAXI TALISMANS

March 16, 2023
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ATTRACTED BY A COLLECTION OF MESMERIZING ITEMS IN THAI TAXIS, DALE KONSTANZ DOCUMENTS THAI TAXI INTERIORS, RESEARCHES THE MYSTICAL OBJECTS HE CAME ACROSS, AND COMPILES THEM INTO THE BOOK WHICH MIRRORS THE QUINTESSENTIAL THAI CULTURE
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PHOTO ESSAY : CHRISTMAS IN THAILAND

March 4, 2023
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TEXT & PHOTO: BARRY MACDONALD

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Christmas in England and most Christian countries is our main holiday and celebration of the year. In the dark and cold winter months it is something to look forward to, a chance to spend time with family and loved ones. The whole country shuts down for a few days, with New Years so close they become intertwined. It’s a chance to celebrate, rest and reflect on the year that’s gone, and the one that’s about to start. I got to spend Christmas 2022 in Thailand, and was fascinated by how enthusiastic Thai people were about it. From giant shopping mall displays, to office Christmas parties and secret Santa’s between friends, so many of the traditions were embraced fully or slightly altered to fit Thai culture. It was interesting to see Christmas interpreted through a different culture and I hope my project shows the spirit of Christmas in Thailand.

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Barry Macdonald was born in London, UK. His dad used to take photos with a 35mm film camera as a hobby and taught him how to use it when he was quite young. He had his own film camera by the time I was 15. The camera opened up a way to interact with the world that made sense to him. Composing a frame and timing the moment brings a satisfaction when everything falls into place. His camera has allowed him to travel and meet a lot of people, and He is always grateful to it for changing his life and helping him make sense of the world.

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PHOTO ESSAY : WHEN I WAKE UP, I WILL DREAM OF BEING A CHILD AGAIN

October 22, 2022
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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 : 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 : 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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