The hands that build booming cities rarely come from within but usually belong to those who came from simpler climes to seek a better life.
Photography exhibition “Lost in Paradise” turns the lens toward workers who left someplace familiar to work and live in Bangkok. Fine Art Magazine says photographer Lek Kiatsirikajorn presents “an allegory for modern Thailand: the country as a whole, like these workers, left its past of agriculture behind in search of a better life, but now finds itself trapped between this lost history and a better future which seems to remain just out of reach.”
The exhibition was supported by Paris-based Musée du quai Branly which awarded Lek one of three photography grants in 2012. The Bangkok exhibition, which runs from Saturday through April 27.
An opening reception will be held from 6:30pm to 9pm on Saturday at Kathmandu Photo Gallery on Pan Road.
FIND IT:
87 Pan Road, near the Sri Mahamariamman Temple on lower Silom Road. BTS Surasak.
Opening: 6:30pm – 9:30 pm, Saturday
