{"id":8107,"date":"2019-09-25T14:02:20","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T07:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kathmanduphotobkk.com\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2024-02-21T15:18:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T08:18:44","slug":"future-hua-lamphong-manit-sriwanichpoom-rammy-narula","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kathmanduphotobkk.com\/?p=8107","title":{"rendered":"Hua Lamphong \/ Manit Sriwanichpoom & Rammy Narula"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathmandu Photo Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Hua Lamphong<\/strong><\/h1>\n

A photographic dialogue between<\/p>\n

Manit Sriwanichpoom & <\/strong>Rammy Narula<\/strong><\/p>\n

16 November \u2013 28 December 2019<\/p>\n

[Opening party Sat 16 Nov. from 6.30 \u2013 9.00 pm.]<\/em>  <\/em><\/p>\n

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By coincidence, 2 photographers began their serious street photography at Hua Lamphong Railway Station: Manit Sriwanichpoom in 1985 and Rammy Narula in 2015, or 30 years apart.<\/p>\n

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Night and day, Manit roamed Thailand\u2019s oldest railway station with a camera, from the ticketing hall to the platforms, recording old women, monks, novices, young men seeking their fortune, junkies,  gamblers, the homeless. Perhaps because they are in black and white, Manit\u2019s Hua Lamphong series displays a heavy atmosphere of exhaustion and despair, as if these passengers are trapped in limbo at the station, waiting for a train that will never come.<\/p>\n

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By contrast, Rammy planted himself on platform #10, using the train carriages as his backdrop, like a stage setting for dramas enacted by anonymous players. Rammy deliberately pressed the shutter when the passengers\u2019 backs are turned to him or as they gazed absentmindedly elsewhere, thereby reducing their individuality to its bare essentials, leaving room for the viewers to add their own narrative. Rammy\u2019s atmospheric Hua Lamphong is thus steeped with beauty and emotional intensity, like still frames from a film noir thriller.<\/p>\n

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Manit Sriwanichpoom<\/strong> (b. 1961) is a long-established photographer, his work widely exhibited in numerous international contemporary photography festivals and collected by many prominent art museums of the world. This is the first exhibition of his \u2018Hua Lamphong\u2019 series.<\/p>\n

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Rammy Narula<\/strong> (b. 1980) is a fast-rising star of the new generation of Thai street photography, garnering accolades for his work of colourful intensity and poetic power, which have been invited to many international photography festivals. For this former financier, business graduate of Assumption University, his Hua Lamphong series, titled \u2018Platform 10\u2019, announces his arrival as a photographic artist.<\/p>\n

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