“ LUNAR : luculenus ” Group Photography Exhibition
“ LUNAR : luculenus” Group Photography Exhibition by SOPHIRAT MAUNGKUM // TANAWUT NGAMWUTTHIWONG // KAMTHORN UNSAB // POOMJAI ATTANUN October 5 - 26,2019 at Ilford Galerie Bangkok
(460/8 Surawong Rd. Si-Phraya Bangrak, Bangkok ) OPENING RECEPTION OCT 5 ,2019
START 16.00-21.00 P.M. LIVE music by Pree Asvaraksha 17.30 P.M. ** FREE ENTRY **
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LUNAR : luculenus “ ต่อให้พระจันทร์ไม่เต็มดวง มันก็ยังคงความงามด้วยตัวของมันเอง ” ยังคงเป็นคำตอบที่ไม่ชัดเจน ว่าทำไมผู้คนจึงชื่นชอบการมองดวงจันทร์ แต่คิดว่าคงไม่ใช่สาเหตุของการที่ดวงจันทร์นั้น เป็นเพียงแค่ดาวบริวารดวงหนึ่งที่อยู่ในจักรวาลที่ห่างไกลโลกและส่องแสงได้ แต่สิ่งที่ทำให้ดวงจันทร์มีเสน่ห์และสวยงามจนได้ถูกเปรียบเปรยถึงความสวยงามของสตรีเพศ
ในบางครั้งว่า งดงามดั่งดวงจันทร์ นั่นอาจจะเป็นเพราะว่าของแสงเงาของดวงจันทร์ในยามค่ำคืนนั้น
เหมือนมีมนต์สะกดบางอย่าง ทำให้เราสามารถมองได้อย่างไม่รู้เบื่อ เปรียบเสมือนภาพขาวดำ ที่เป็นการลดทอนสิ่งรอบข้างและนำสปอร์ตไลท์ฉายไปในสิ่งที่เรารู้สึกจริงๆ นิทรรศการในครั้งนี้เปรียบภาพขาวดำ ดั่งแสงเงาของดวงจันทร์ในยามค่ำคืน ที่ดวงจันทร์ของบางคนอาจจะเป็นพระจันทร์เสี้ยว ดวงจันทร์ของบางคนอาจจะเป็นพระจันทร์เต็มดวง นิทรรศการ Lunar : luculenus ที่แปลเป็นภาษาไทยแบบสวยๆว่า ความงามของจันทรา เป็นการรวมตัวของศิลปินที่มีความแตกต่างในมุมมอง ประสบการณ์ เทคนิค แม้กระทั่งเฉดของโทนสีดำที่ชอบ แต่มีเป้าหมายเดียวกันคือต้องการแสดงมุมมองความงามในรูปแบบของตนเอง “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
- Ansel Adams -
LUNAR: luculenus
‘Even the moon is not in full, yet remains its beauty’ it is still ambiguous why people care about looking at the moon. Being just a big shining star in way too far from earth will not be a reason but what make the moon be so seductive until being sometimes compared to womankind – as beautiful as the moon.
That might be because we can never get enough looking at the moon shadow in the dark night as if being spellbound. Like black and white photo which reduce its surroundings and highlighted our deep feeling.
This exhibition draw a parallel between black and white photos and the moon in dark night – crescent for someone and full moon for others. ‘Lunar: Luculenus’ exhibition which means in Thai as Beauty as the moon, it is a get-together of artists who have different; perspective, experience, technique, even tone of black shade preference but share a common goal – desire to reveal their own view of beauty. “A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.”
- Ansel Adams -
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Artists : Sophirat Muangkum (1983) Thai artist lives and works based in Bangkok.
Sophirat is a self-taught artist and currently one of Thailand’s leading nude photographers. She had spent 3 years working as a photographer in Germany prior to moving back home in 2013 where she started to exhibit her works and established herself in the Thailand art scene. Sophirat is interested in humans thought. She is often inspired by stories of people,natural,animal, subculture and situation of thai society. She answers her questions thru her works about what she interested in that time. In year 2019, she starts join ‘artist-in-residence’ program because she would like to has an opportunity to research and collaborate with local people about what do they think about their own body. She tries to empower people to start loving their body and respect the others because at the present a body shaming social issue is the one of a most worst mindset in thailand.
Her works have been exhibited, among the others, at Bangkok Art & Cultural Center (BACC), Photo Fair Thailand at BITEC (Bangkok), Midnice Gallery (Bangkok), Radisson Blu (Bangkok), Objectifs-Centre for Photography and Film (Singapore), Rebel Art Space (Bangkok). Her solo exhibition has been exhibited at most gallery, also a part of ‘Galleries night Bangkok’. Sophirat also has photobooks and ‘THIS IS MY BODY’ which thelastest one is launched on June 2019 at her solo exhibition in chiangmai ,Thailand.
Muangkum also works for commercial projects and publications. Her images have been featured in VOGUE Italia, ThaiPBS, Play Magazine Thailand, Zoomaa (Norway), KALTBLUT Magazine (Germany) and Blast Magazine Thailand. She is also a guest artist at many photography workshops and talks. “Not just simple nude; her work is a combination of artistic, idea, and art of pulling out of identity. Many works of Sophirat show us various identities of models; telling their hidden stories through skins, gestures, and complex lights and colors.” - 99 New Thai Contemporary Photographers by Akkara Naktamna - Tanawut Ngamwutthiwong (1980), is a Thai-born and currently lives in Bangkok, Thailand. He is a self-taught photographer. He bought his first camera 17 years ago (2002) when he studied about management finance in San Diego, USA.
He start photography as a serious hobby again on 7 years later , He found himself was deeply fascinated with photo shooting. He sought for not only in depth technique knowledge but also keep practice to gain more experiences. The more practice he did, the more he realized that light and shadow became fascinated as well as lines and curves. This is the reason why his impressive works are nude in BLACK & WHITE where his passion lies on.
His feeling and thought are also expresses through Portrait , Landscape and Life which still convey his signature as BLACK & WHITE.
Tanawut had his first solo exhibition ‘ Empathy In Parallel ’ in April 2019 and it was successful. Work 2010-2014 @ Freelance photographer ( Portraiture , Fashion , Wedding ) , 2015-Present @ Freelance photographer , Artist
Kamthorn Unsab (Por), wedding photographer and owner of Masterpor Photography graduated from Assumption University. He began his career photographing and documenting the plight of refugees for the United Nations. Later, he worked for the IT department at the International Rescue Committee.
From a young age, Por has been intrigued with observing people and their interactions in the play of light and shadow. He is influenced primarily by two artists: Ansel Adams, for his mastery of rendering nuances of tonal variation of black and white photography to the printed image, and Claude Monet, for his impressionist paintings imparting the subtlety of light and movement beyond concepts of symmetry.
As a wedding photographer, Por’s passion lies in integrating these styles, expertly translating to print the subtle tonal range of black and white imagery with the dreamy, impressionistic feel of brush strokes to capture a couple’s sacred moment.
Poomjai is photographer based in Bangkok, His passion on creating fine art photography and focused on black & white. He loves creating images that express imagination, feeling and storytelling from his past experience by exploring all imaging techniques.
