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Finding a better way
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 05/06/2017
» Last week, amid all the news, flooding and political madness that's been sending residents of the Kingdom into a spiralling negative void, an unexpected source of uplift came through: netizens.
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The city that's a work of art
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 07/06/2017
» A life-size replica of the Greek Parthenon built from banned books sits in a central square, a former military base is completely covered in jute charcoal sacks, and standing tall in the inner city is a 16m obelisk that reads "I was a stranger and you took me in" in four different languages.
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Pushing boundaries
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 21/06/2017
» Who knew that appreciating art could be so physically exhausting?
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Poetry in motion
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 31/03/2017
» When one thinks of Van Cleef & Arpels, the iconic range of four-leaf clover jewels known as the Alhambra Collection typically comes to mind. However, the French high-jewellery brand does much more than that. For more than a century since its founding, the maison has also been creating timepieces, called Poetic Complications, packed full with impressive complications and stunning jewellery-making techniques only found within the brand.
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Art education
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 20/04/2017
» Without artists, there would be no curators, and without curators, there would be no exhibitions. It may be a long stretch, but with this knowledge in hand, the camaraderie within Asia's art scene seems to be growing stronger than ever, and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC)'s latest exhibition Mode of Liaisons just seems to prove that.
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Hidden figures
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 03/03/2017
» With each passing year, countless home and luxury condominiums are erected by the hands of those who will never actually step foot in them. Living in community camps, the builders -- mostly migrant workers from Cambodia -- live in a parallel world -- inside flimsy impromptu tin houses, risking the health and safety of themselves and their families for the hope of a brighter future.
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Seeing the invisible
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 16/03/2017
» Dishevelled boys having a heated conversation over a small campfire, a lonesome child pulling a makeshift toy on a littered camp ground, and the teardrops of a crying girl who has had an extra-strenuous day. Every day, we are bombarded with photographs of poverty -- but not every day do we get to see it through the eyes of someone who truly cares.
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Value added
Muse, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 25/02/2017
» Peerapat "Add" Wimolrungkarat is probably the first and last of his kind -- in Thailand, at least. For seven years, he was the appointed photographer for Abhisit Vejjajiva, the 27th prime minister of Thailand. Channelling Pete Souza, the former chief official White House photographer for President Barack Obama, Peerapat had captured the rare, unseen and human moments of Abhisit -- an alternatively loved and hated figure in Thai politics.
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In Salgado's pictures: empathy, meaning and truth
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 10/02/2017
» Gaze at any of Sebastião Salgado's photographs and overwhelming emotion washes over you. The hauntingly magnificent black-and-white photos, which at times punch you right in the gut, depict the best and worst of the planet we live on. From the bleak mud-covered miners climbing hell-like pits of the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil to petroleum-soaked workers in the war-torn oilfields of Kuwait, to the sun-kissed mountain ranges of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska -- Salgado's work possesses qualities many photographers today seem to have forgotten about in this image-saturated world: empathy, meaning, truth.
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Saving the Tamarind
Life, Apipar Norapoompipat, Published on 07/02/2017
» For over a century the 783 tamarind trees have encircled the sacred ground of Sanam Luang. They were there, like stoic sentinels, during ceremonial pomp and political upheavals, come rain or shine. If the vast ground fronting the Grand Palace is a symbol of Bangkok, the tamarind trees are in turn a symbol of Sanam Luang.
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