From Portraits on the Wall to Leaves and Flowers on the Street

I Just want to share some experience I've gained through photography.

I believe that through the portraits of those great people, we can recall good faith.

And through pictures of leaves and trees I always took along the way, we would realise that either near or far, each journay makes us perceive beauty ... only if we stop and pay attention to the surrounding.

Tatree Sangmee-Anuphab

Tatree Sangmee-Arnupharb graduated from the Faculty of Mass Communication, CHiamg Mai University. He started his career as a freelance photographer in Chiang Mai. At the end of 2005, he joined the staff of Open Magazine. After Open, he worked for various magazines such as a day weekl, Ta-Jia-Hao and Kor Kon.

During that period, Tatree earned much experience which was portrayed through many photographs he took both for publiscation and for personal satisfaction.

Most of his work are portraits of persons who he tries best to capture their personality truthfully.


While in his relaxed time, the same camera also captures the personality of surrouded nature with honesty.





Thus beyond sheets of photographic paper and frames, From Portraits on the Wall to Leaves and Flowers on the Street represents what Tatree sees and feels deep from his heart.


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From Portraits on the Wall to Leaves and Flowers on the Street
A Photography Exhibition by Tatree Sangmee-Arnuphab

On view from 1 March to 5 April 2009
At People Space Gallery
Phrang Phuthon, Phranakorn, Bangkok

The gallery opens only on Saturday and Sunday from 11 am to 7 pm.


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Opening Party: Sunday 1 March 2009 (From 6 pm onwards)


For more information please call 081-5491002
Email: people.space@yahoo.com

In Memory of Kanokpong Songsompan

Thank you all for joining us in "In Memory of Kanokpong" :-)

In Memory of Kanokpong Songsompan

You are cordially invited to
"In Memory of Kanokpong Songsompan"

Talk on "Kanokpong's Ideals" by Kajornrit Raksa, Cheevee Cheeva and Paivarin Khaongam
Poetry Reading by Saksiri Meesomsueb and Maineung K. Kuntee
Music by Manoch Puttan
Short Film by Nok Paksanawin
Critics by Anusorn Tipayanon

Venue: People Space
Date: 13 February 2009
Time: 7 pm onwards

For more information please call 081-5491002
Email: people.space@yahoo.com

Happy New Year 2009

Dear PS friends,

People Space would like to wish you all a very Happy New Year.
May all joy, happiness and good health be with you.
Thank you for your warm support for our little space in the past year.
See you soon in 2009 with upcoming exhibitions and activities.
We'll surely keep you posted :-)

Best wishes,
People Space

Welcome to Paradise Thailand

Paradise Thailand
Poetry and Paintings Exhibition
By Sarinee Achavanuntakul and Angkrit Ajchariyasophon

On view at People Space
From 27 September to 25 October 2008

Opening Party: Friday 26 September (7 pm onwards)

Book Launch: “Paradise Thailand”
Talk with the writer and artist

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Paradise Thailand is the first collaboration between an independent scholar, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, and a very keen artist, Angkrit Ajchariyasophon.

While Sarinee criticizes her society fervently, Angkrit, after reading those poems, cannot stop his alerted imagination resulting in almost 50 diverse paintings.

Paradise Thailand thus represents the creative force of those two people.
Come and read their illustrated poetry and see whether our country is like what they say.

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Paradise Thailand

Self-proclaimed ‘academic’ lies in bed
racks her head on Thailand. Already –
angst and ache yearning to be free;
released from “Sarinee” in verse form.

When “Angkrit” finished his reading, it’s
like finding long-lost source of power.
Brush in hand, he swerves to transfer
in color : all words to canvas.

“Paradise Thailand” – where’s it at?
when we say “now THAT’s Thai,” is it real?
or simply illusions that we feel?
Here’s the deal : please look, read and think.

For more information call 081 5491002
Email: people.space@yahoo.com
http://www.people-space.blogspot.com/

People Space
116 Phraeng Phuton Road, San Chaopor Suea, Phranakorn, Bangkok 10200

Opening Party: Death by Conscience

Death by Conscience

People Space would like to invite you all
to explore your thoughts and mind in our new exhibition

Death by Conscience

These dolls are not a representation of human beings.
They are a representation of all that’s killed by conscience.
They are desires shackled within the deepest reaches of the human heart.
They are thoughts and impulses deemed criminal or inappropriate to society.
Before they are given a chance to breathe, they are executed.
Killed by ourselves; murdered by conscience.
Death before Birth.


Through almost 100 ceramic dolls, Chananun Chotrungroj will take us to the other world - the world of (dead) thoughts. Our artist also invites her friend, Kirsten Tan, a young-blood filmmaker from Singapore to share this experience through her video art.

Chananun Chotrungroj graduated from the Department of Mass Communication, Faculty of Humanities, Chiang Mai University. Since then she worked as photographer for OPEN Magazine for several years before taking off to Korea in 2005 to participate in the Asian Artist Fellowship Program. After a year in Korea, she headed back to Bangkok where she now lives and continues to photograph joyfully. Death by Conscience is the last work before she leaves to further her study in the US.


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Death by Conscience

On view from 23 August to 20 September 2008
Venue: People Space
116 Phraeng Phuton Road, San Chaopor Suea, Phranakorn, Bangkok 10200
Open hours: Only on Saturday and Sunday (11 am – 7 pm)

Opening Party: Saturday 23 August 2008 (8 pm onwards)


For more information please call 081-5491002
Email: people.space@yahoo.com

Opening Party "From the Wild to Paris"

Workshop "From the Wild" with M.L. Prinyakorn Voravan

Workshop "From the Wild" with M.L. Prinyakorn Voravan

Sunday 27 July 2008 (1-3 pm)

In this workshop, M.L. Prinyakorn Voravan will tell us about his experiences in the wild and answer all questions about wild life photography.

To get a good picture, it does not depend solely on clicking the shutter at the right moment. There are many other things behind those lens and M.L. Prinyakorn, who has worked in the deep forest for more than 20 years, will be the one who tell us those hidden stories.

If you are interested in attending this event, please register your name and email address in the comment box below.

Please come and join us ... it's fun and it's free :-)

From the Wild to Paris
A shared path of two photographers

People Space is a new gallery located in the heart of the old town of Bangkok. Until present, we have organized two exhibitions: Paper by Wisut Ponnimit and Mind’s Eye: Collections of Hand-Coloured Black and White Photographs by Chaipong Kittinaradorn.

Our coming exhibition, From the Wild to Paris, will open on this Saturday 12 July. The exhibition covers photographic works of two photographers, M.L. Prinyakorn Voravan and Supachai Ketkaroonkul. Despite disparity in contents, they both share the same path of documentary photography.

Using different kinds of lens and telling different stories, they both have the same kind of heart - the one that is eager to learn and understand our world.

Talking about wild life photography, M.L. Prinyakorn Voravan is one among those very few who dedicate their life for it. He has been in the wilderness taking those pictures of wild animals and their nature home for more than 20 years. Although he is a descendant of hunters, unlike his ancestors, his only weapon is a camera and not a rifle. His philosophy has changed from hunting to storytelling.

Still, despite long period of working, M.L Prinyakorn has never exhibited his work anywhere (in Thailand). At most, he has a picture book called Spirit of the Jungle published many years ago.

The other photographer is Supachai Ketkaroonkul. He graduated from the Faculty of Liberal Arts majoring in Film from Thammasat University. His black-and-white portraits are important parts for Open Magazine in its beginning phrase. The beauty he conveys through his lens is raw but not savage. It is documentary reality coated with poetic tenderness.

Supachai left Bangkok for Paris years ago to further his master education. When finished, he flied back home and still works as a photographer.


It is true that the story of Paris has been told over and over again for it is never a forgotten or unnoticed city. But once more, we will see Paris, in many different views, through the eyes of a Thai photographer who fell in love and lived with her for 6 years.

From the Wild to Paris aims to represent never-ending stories of both the wilderness and the city, two things that seem to be far apart but in fact tightly relate to one another. In the wild, there is life not different from in the city and as nature keeps balance for all life, what happens in the wild will eventually reach the city. This is why we have to travel so far From the Wild to Paris to learn from nature and understand more of our existence.

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From the Wild to Paris
On view from 12 July – 17 August 2008

Venue: People Space
116 Phraeng Phuton Road, San Chaopor Suea, Phranakorn, Bangkok 10200
Open Hours: Only on Saturday and Sunday (11 am - 7 pm)
(By appointment if besides Saturday and Sunday)

Opening Party: 12 July 2008 (8 pm onwards)

- Wild life slide show from M.L. Prinyakorn Voravan with live music from Manoch Puttan

- Artists’ Talk: Pinyo Trisuriyatamma will talk with our artists, M.L. Parinyakorn Worawan and Supachai Ketkaroonkul.

For more information:
Tel. 081 5491002
Email: people.space@yahoo.com
www.people-space.blogspot.com

Hand-Coloured Course

Finally, it comes to our last activity from Mind's Eye: Collections of Hand-Coloured Black and White Photographs.

Thank you you all for joining us and hope to see you again in our next exhibition.

Please keep your eyes around here. We will keep you updated :-)

Hand-Coloured Photography Demonstration Activity

Mind's Eye: Collection of Hand-Coloured Black and White Photographs

On view from 17 May – 21 June 2008

Opening Party : 17 May 2008 (8 pm onwards)
- Hand-Coloured Photographs Slide Presentation with Khim Performance from Erin Songdechagraiwud
- Artist’s Talk : Pinyo Trisuriyatamma will talk with our artist - Chaipong Kittinaradorn - about the history and concepts of hand-colouring photography.

Venue : People Space 116 Phrang Phuthon Road, San Chaopho Suea, Phranakorn, Bangkok, Thailand 10200 Tel : 0815491002 E-mail : people.space@yahoo.com
http://www.people-space.blogspot.com/

Open Hours : Only on Saturday and Sunday (11 am – 7 pm)
Press : By Appointment (if besides Saturday and Sunday)

Events & Activities :

Sunday 25 May 2008 (1.30 pm onwards)
Hand-Colouring Photography Demonstration and Shooting Day
- Our artist will demonstrate how to create hand-coloured photographs.
- For those who are interested in doing hand-coloured photographs by themselves or would like our artist to do one for them, members from B&W Rhapsodies Group will photograph all the participants in black and white. All have to return on the next Sunday for their own hand-coloured photographs.
- Free admission fee for the demonstration.

Sunday 1 June 2008 (1.30 pm onwards)
Hand-Coloured Photographs Workshop
- Those who were photographed on the previous Sunday return to do their own versions of hand-coloured photographs or let our artist create ones for them.
- Fee: 500 Baht per a 8”´10” photo (all equipments included)

Sunday 15 June 2008 (1.30 pm onwards)
Hand-Colouring Photography Course
- This course is designed for those who really want to know hand-colouring photography in depth. Our artist will give a full lecture as well as run a workshop so you know from start till end how hand-coloured photographs are made. (Our artist will prepare samples of black and white photos for the participants to practice their skill.)
- Fee:500 Baht per person (all equipments included)

Closing Date : 21 June 2008

-- Full volumn of Chaipong Kiitnaradorn’s Mind’s Eye : Collections of Hand-Coloured Black and White Photographs published by openbooks will be available at the gallery along with the exhibition--

“I have never denied that the world is full of colours.
However, as one who adores old-fashioned photography
and feels averse to the unnatural touch of photographic paper

printed from colour negatives or colour slides,
I love to paint colours on black and white photographs by hand.

Many kinds of media and colours are applied to deliver
my imaginary vision - sometimes faithfully imitated from reality,

sometimes deliberately distorted…”

Chaipong Kittinaradorn

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In the modern world where everything seems to move rapidly, leisure pursuit hobbies that once used to make people happy are likely unable to make them happy quick enough. We tend to spend our time in front of televisions which offer us all kinds of entertainment second by second just by pressing buttons on our remote controllers.

Everyday we are in a rush and attach our lives to technology that supposes to help us save time, unrealising that the time saved is being wasted in vain.
Technology that we hope to make our lives easier, for many times, turns to be our complication.
Thus, deep down, we long for simplicity that we once had or dreamt to have.

Chaipong Kittinaradorn is the one who profoundly perceives this truth.

In the time when photography becomes digitalised with highly-developed gadgets and techniques, Chaipong and his friends of all ages have gathered and called themselves “Black and White Rhapsodies Group”. In the group’s website http://www.bwfoto.net/, the phrase “no digital cameras here” is stated clearly. Members of the group prefer the old-fashioned photography which photographers have to control every step of creation from shooting, developing and printing.

In Chaipong’s belief, Black & White colour is the most fundamental kind of truth. Still, at present, black-and-white photography has become a kind of hobbies for specific groups. Wide-spread use of digital cameras partly makes black-and-white photography too complex. Shooting in digital files, on the contrary, is easy to develop and use. The process of photographic creation that one has to control every step by himself appears to be far too complicated.

However, once, black-and-white photography connoted simplicity. In case one wanted photos to have realistic colours as his eyes saw, the maker only needed to paint colours onto black-and-white photo surface. This simple and delicate method together blended art and craft harmoniously.

This has laid the foundation of Hand-Colouring Photography.

Although the existence of colour negatives has deluded the practice of hand-coloured photography, nowadays, there are many photographers who are fascinated by this crafty work and reuse this technique. The working process remains the same; the purpose, nevertheless, alters greatly. Hand-colouring is no longer for imitating nature but for rendering freedom of imagination. It is the intimate relationship of body and mind. Thoughts and feels shape the creator’s character through various colours painted deliberately. If we see a camera as a man, photographs are things that the man sees through the eye in his mind.

Mind’s Eye will display series of hand-coloured photographs by Chaipong Kittinaradorn – a photographer who is happy with this slow-pace artistic creation.

People Space truly believes that besides pleasure the viewer will get, seeing the world through the eyes of others will help open up your mind and make you see things from different perspectives.

Portrait Booking :-)

It's time to reserve your portrait(s)!!!!
Each portrait costs 200 Baht.
(Students will get 10% discount by showing their student cards.)

For booking, just leave your full name, contact number and e-mail address as well as identify the Group and Number you want in the comment box below. (The number will show when you point at your portrait.)

For any query, please email to people.space@yahoo.com or call 081-5491002 :-)