Akkara Naktamna: In the Mood of Loss (2017)
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A Poster design and Art Direction for ‘Pink, Black & Blue Exhibition'
A Solo Photographic Exhibition By Manit Sriwanichpoom
Curated by Akkara Naktamna
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We used to decipher colour more deeply: green with envy, pink with pleasure, red with shame. We are bruised black and blue.
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Colour divides us even as it unites – into us and them; black and white, red and blue, red and yellow. Such artificially-induced divisions to conquer have left many people too mentally exhausted to maintain any degree of awareness or even to care about human survival, let alone art. It’s become easy to forget that colour in its pure vibrational form, unburdened by preconception and man-made context, is energy, with the power to heal and free us from obscure emotional conflict through a sort of pleasurable catharsis. Colour is instant drama, beyond words and shapes, beyond touch, colour saturates the brain and clarifies the heart.
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The worldwide imprisonment of the pandemic lockdown gave photo-artist Manit Sriwanichpoom the quiet time he needed to complete the long-overdue compilation of his iconic Pink Man series, as well as two other books of previously unseen work of extraordinary intensity: the transcendental ‘I Saw A Blue Wing’ and the dark joy of ‘When I Was Twenty’.
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A rare visual feast, ‘Pink, Black & Blue’ is an exhibition comprising works from all three collections.
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11 FEBRUARY - 9 APRIL 2023
Opening Reception 11 February 2023, 5.00 PM
HOP PHOTO GALLERY
3rd floor, MUNx2, Seacon Square Srinakarin.
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Thank you CType Magazine for selecting my work as 12 Finalists for Open Call 2021 ‘Survival’, Sep 2021
‘What We talk about when we talk about survival? ‘
Living in the modern world, we are overwhelmed by news on disasters and unfortunate events. Our worries over illness, climate change and violence have never been so up-closed. While death happens within seconds, we spend our lifetime worrying about it and if there is anything awaiting for us beyond.
Survival is not limited to physical and mostly, an emotional battle of mankind. Every moment, we worry about losing our job, not being understand by others, not accomplishing our goals; thanks to social media, we consistently compare our interior with other people’s exterior. All these negative thoughts lead us to loneliness, a feeling we are not really good at coping with.
To survive through loneliness, we can consider picking up a few talents along our journey. Reading is one of my favourite tools to make dialogue with people from the past and learn from their stories. Taking our time to love and to mourn, and to understand the power of living in the moment, not the past nor future. Understanding our own weakness, which is indeed a beautiful gift from God. Finally, learn how to be in solitude. All these tools might allow us to make peace with what we fear the most.
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In the Mood of Loss, Akkara Naktamna
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Happy to be featured in CTypeMag - photos from the series Wish You Were Here. Many thanks to Akkara Naktamna.
You can view it here:
https://issuu.com/ctypemag/docs/ctypemag_e-magazine_01
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"Landlord" by Photographer Akkara Naktamna
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Akkara Naktamna
http://www.akkaranaktamna.com/
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Pertemuan awal dengan photo series Sign’s dari Akkara Naktamna adalah pada Desember 2016, ketika diikut pamerkan pada rangkaian acara Jambore Street Photography Indonesia ketika itu, saya menikmati pertama kali dalam bentuk photobook. Kesan pertama yang saya dapatkan adalah, suatu kemampuan observasi yang sangat bagus. Kembali menghadirkan memori di masa kecil, pada masa menikmati film animasi yang sering ditampilkan distasiun televisi era 90an. Monster di dunia fantasi tersebut disuguhkan pada rangkaian foto yang sangat menarik.
Kesungguhan dalam berkarya untuk merealitaskan fantasi, tentunya butuh kerja keras dan niat besar untuk mewujudkan project ini. Mengagumkan! (Tomi S)
About
With photography, your evolution as a photographer. Your influences and favorite stuff within and outside of photography:
Akkara Naktamna was born in Bangkok in 1979 and started shooting as a self-taught photographer in 2008 influenced by Elliott Erwitt’s book and a comedy movie named “Pecker”. His works have been shown widely both in Thailand and abroad such as IPA Street Photography Asia Award 2013 (Singapore), Miami Street Photography Festival 2013 (USA), Xishuangbana Photo Festival 2014 (China), Photo Bangkok Festival 2015, Singapore Photo Festival 2016, etc. In 2016 Akkara made a zine named “SIGNS” which was a shortlist of the Anamorphosis Prize 2016 and also was collected at MoMA Library Collection. He founded Good Art Book: a website for promoting Thai self-published art book, c-Type Magazine: a blog for featuring interesting photo series around the globe, and co-founded Street Photo Thailand collective. Currently Akkara works as a software engineer, has one adorable daughter, and spends his free time for photography.
SIGNS’ Statement
Nightmarish, primeval and strong images captured with beauty and precision. For fans of horror sci-fi, the apocalypse and other mysteries of the Intelligent Universe, Akkara Naktamna’s simple but eye-opening series ‘Signs’ is likely to confirm their growing sense of an organic doomsday conspiracy.
As Akkara says: “My experience in street photography made me sensitive to phenomena and changes around us. I often encounter weird, even eerie, environmental elements, such as various plants that, gorged on the city’s pollution, burst into gigantic mutant creepers, steadily devouring everything around them. They seem to be biding their time to wreak vengeance upon nature-destroying man. Many things we meet in daily life appear inert and lifeless and so are overlooked. Closer scrutiny reveals that they’re furtively signaling each other, emitting unfathomable messages, as in some scene from a horror sci-fi doomsday movie, the kind that always end in tragedy.”
Equipments
You used a simple compact camera like Sony RX100 Mark ll to create SIGNS series. Just some photographs were shot by Fuji X-Pro1.
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All the pictures in this post are copyrighted Akkara Naktamna
SIGNS’, by Akkara Naktamna. Street Photographers from Thailand. Pertemuan awal dengan photo series Sign's dari Akkara Naktamna adalah pada Desember 2016, ketika diikut pamerkan pada rangkaian acara Jambore Street Photography Indonesia ketika itu, saya menikmati pertama kali dalam bentuk photobook.
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“Signs” by Photographer Akkara Naktamna
Bangkok-born photographer and software developer Akkara Naktamna captures nature’s ominous side. He says, “I often encounter weird, even eerie, environmental elements, such as various plants that, gorged on the city’s pollution, burst into gigantic mutant creepers, steadily devouring everything around them. They seem to be biding their time to wreak vengeance upon nature-destroying man.”
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