Travel & Humanitarian Photos
Not one, not two but three great photo exhibitions in Bangkok over the weekend. The World Press Photo and Thai Press photo exhibitions are thought-provoking if harrowing. Difficult really to look at those photos and to leave the exhibition feeling terribly uplifted but there’s no question that these are images which should be brought to our attention. Depressing to see the numbers of journalists killed and wounded around the world last year listed at the entrance to the exhibition. One would be too many but, sadly, the numbers were in the hundreds.
By way of contrast, the aerial photos of Yann Arthus Bertrand show more aesthetically pleasing views of our world and were a welcome change of pace. Impressively big enlargements have been arranged in circles in the square outside the Zen shopping centre in central Bangkok and the backdrop of skyscrapers and skytrain line seemed to work really well.
The exhibitions also served as an opportunity for me to meet up with a few members of the Bangkok Camera Club, which I’m looking forward to joining next month.
