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UNVEILING THAILAND
9 DAYS IN THE KINGDOM
A Commemorative Book by 55 World-class Photographers
In Honour of His Majesty the King’s 80 th Birthday
PHOTOGRAPHERS PROFILE
Kraipit Phanvut
Kraipit Phanvut spent 12 years as a chief photographer for United Press International in Bangkok, covering Thailand and Southeast Asia for them. He was also a chief photographer for Agence France-Presse for eight years. His images have been published in Paris-Match, Newsweek and TIME and he has worked on assignments for Asiaweek and Sipa Press. He is presently a freelance photographer and takes on assignments around the world.
Laura El-Tantawy
Laura El-Tantawy was born in Worcestershire, England. She grew up in Cairo, Egypt and spent her early teenage years in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. She graduated with a dual degree in political science and journalism from the University of Georgia in Athens, Georgia (US). El-Tantawy discovered photography by surprise and fell in love with it as an artistic form of expression of limitless boundaries. She started her career as a newspaper photographer with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Sarasota Herald-Tribune. She is currently a freelancer based in Cairo.
Manit Sriwanichpoom
Manit Sriwanichpoom is one of Thailand’s leading photographers, and its best known in the international art world, having exhibited worldwide at events such as the Venice Biennale, Photo España, Bienal de São Paulo, International Photography Biennale (Mexico), Pingyao International Phtography Festival (China), Gwangju Biennale (Korea), and at the Hayward Gallery and the Photographer’s Gallery, both in the UK. His solo shows include ‘Bangkok in Pink’ at the Yokohama Museum of Art; ‘Pink Man in Paradise’ at Monash University (Australia) and Valentine Willie Fine Arts (KL); ‘Repertoire of the Innermost’ at the Plum Blossom Gallery (Singapore); and ‘Beijing Pink’ at the Highland Gallery (Beijing). His works are held by the Maison européenne de la photographie (Paris), the Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, the Singapore Art Museum and well-known private collectors. In 2002, he was listed as one of the world’s 100 most interesting emerging photographers by Phaidon Press in their book BLINK.
Martin Reeves
Asia has held Martin Reeves in a spell for two decades. Being a passionate photographer, he sought a film that could portray Asia how he had envisioned it, in an enchanted and mysterious way.
His quest began in India in 1986 when he set out with some infrared black and white film. The images that appeared revealed a hidden realm. He became captivated, bewitched and intrigued by the notion of infrared light (which is invisible to the naked eye) manifesting in photographs. Its dream-like look seemed to uncover a dimension that really does exist beyond the confines of our visual spectrum.
The July/August 1997 issue of ZOOM, an international fine art photography magazine, featured Reeves’s infrared black and white Asian portfolio. His photographs were featured again in the September/October and Novembe/December 2005 issues.
In September 2006, while on a state visit, four of Reeves’s infrared black and white photos of Angkor were chosen by H.R.H. Norodom Sihamoni, the King of Cambodia, as gifts to be presented to the government of the Czech Republic.
In December 2006, Reeves’s book Angkor: Into The Hidden Realm will be published in Bangkok. It comprises over 80 infrared black and white photos of Angkor taken over a 14-year period, and has a foreword written by H.R.H. Norodom Rattana-Devi.
Reeves also works as a freelance director of photography for Discovery Channel Asia, MTV and various independent documentary programmes in order to fund his Asian infrared black and white portfolios — a personal project now spanning two decades.
Michael Freeman
London-based Michael Freeman, with more than 80 photographic books to his credit, is a veteran when it comes to photographing Southeast Asia, a region he has covered for clients such as Smithsonian (for whom he has shot more than 40 stories over 25 years), The Sunday Times Magazine, Time Life, Thames and Hudson and many others. His latest book, Sudan: The Land and the People, represents a widening of geographical coverage.
Freeman is also the author of over 30 books on digital photography, including the best-selling Complete Guide to Digital Photography.
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