Tyrone Lebon

Reely & Truly

Films

Chardchakaj Waikawee

 follows Thai photographer Chardchakaj Waikawee over a ten-year period as he photographs the streets of Bangkok for his project 

.

The project takes its title from the Thai phrase 

, a term that extends beyond a simple description of age to evoke youth as "a spirit, an attitude, a way of inhabiting the world". Working with expired and cross-processed film, and improvised equipment, Waikawee embraces the physical materiality of the medium as a reflection of the lives he documents.

Alongside portraits from the 

 series, Waikawee also creates wet-plate collodion portraits of Buddhist monks, using one of the medium's earliest processes to explore memory, time, and spirituality. Through both bodies of work, he uses analogue photography to expose Thailand's entrenched class divisions while giving visibility to those omitted from its official histories.



Episode #06 of Reely and Truly follows Thai photographer Chardchakaj Waikawee over a ten-year period as he photographs the streets of Bangkok for his project Youth.

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Chardchakaj Waikawee

by Tyrone Lebon

R&T S1 E6Chardchakaj Waikawee

by Tyrone Lebon

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Chardchakaj Waikawee