As much as I love producing films, there’s something especially magical about stopping on a single frame — holding it — and letting the moment reveal itself a little more slowly. Particularly with analog glass!
There may be no better way to begin understanding rural, Northwest Thailand than through documentary photography. A still image has patience. It invites you to look longer, past the obvious, into the textures of daily life.
Today’s assignment takes us no farther than our own front door and into the village of Non Thong Lang, where we live near the Cambodian border. Geography is the architect of things here. Thai, Isaan, Khmer, and Lao traditions meet and overlap, creating a quiet convergence that shows up in faces, food, ritual, and routine.
POINT OF NOTE: Walking up someone’s driveway (even a stranger), into their personal spaces, around their property without even asking is a very bizarre feeling. Totally normal here.)
Come along for an intimate walk through a place that, at first glance, might seem one thing but is something else entirely … when you begin to notice it.