TEXT & PHOTO: CHATURON YADAM
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To the moon.
You whom I can only gaze upon from here.
Up there, with only stars and sky for company, it must be terribly lonely.
Have you ever found yourself in love with the moon?
I am one of those who have fallen for it completely.
Perhaps I could even be called a rabbit hopelessly enamored with the moon.
Many say the moon is a symbol of the unattainable, something we are destined only to admire from afar, never to possess.
She is like the distant glow of the moon itself, surrounded by countless rabbits, longing and reaching, and by a hundred thousand stars. Yet she remains softer, more luminous than any light among them.
Even when one longs to ascend, rabbits are timid creatures.
And still, deep down, I wish to hold her. If only in the form of an image, that would be enough.
I am the one who pairs the moon with its companions. As much as I wish to stand beside her myself, it is simply not possible, because there is no one to take the photograph, hahaha. Even so, if I cannot claim her, there is still joy in simply looking up from here.
In the end, my moon may not be as grand as others.
But I can photograph her in my own way, even so.
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Rong, Chaturon Yadam is a merchant with a deep passion for photography, working across a wide range of genres. He is particularly drawn to minimal photography, valuing simplicity and clarity, and often composes his images with generous negative space to create a sense of calm and visual cleanliness. His practice frequently returns to the moon and the sky, as he seeks to preserve the feeling of wonder he experiences each time he looks upward, quietly captured and held within the frame of a photograph.
