Until today, Rong Wongsawan has passed away for almost a month. He left before the incredible chaos erupted in Bangkok , starting from the Royal Thai Government House and expanding around the metropolis, especially in the inner of Rattanakosin Island . As People Space is situated in Phrang Phuton, the location surrounded by violence at the time, we then feared whether the exhibition for Khun Rong could be held as planned.
When peace has been secured, even though temporarily, we are happy to tell you all that through this May, People Space, a more-than-100-year old shop house, will be transformed, with help from our friends, to be an exhibit space for photographs taken by Rong Wongsawan, which will be called ‘In the Shadow of Time of Rong Wongsawan’.
Apart from images of an important figure as M.R. Kukrit Pramoj, there are photographs of the old Bangkok which are rarely seen. Although many years have passed, those pictures are still vivid and astonishing until today.
Added with Khun Rong’s portraits taken by Tawatchai Pattanaporn, a young-blood photographer whose work in the book called Teekerdhead has been much praised, the exhibition is complete.
All the work in this exhibition is large-size black-and-white photographs printed by hand in the old-fashioned way that retains all details usually overlooked by the new digital technology.
'In the Shadow of Time of Rong Wongsawan’ will be opened on Friday 1 May 2009 from 6 pm onward, where you will meet various thinkers, writers, critics and editors talking on the topic In Memory of Rong Wongsawan.
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Other Activities:
+ Sunday 3 May 2009 (6 pm)
- The SEA.Write writer Binlah Sonkalagiri will talk on the topic From Binlah to the Great Eagle
- Tawatchai Pattanaporn on the subject Last Light at Tune-In garden
+ Sunday 10 May 2009 (6 pm)
- Pramual Pengchan on the topic Thinking of Rong Wongsawan, Thinking of the Heaven of Life
+ Sunday 17 May 2009 (6 pm)
- Talk with Open’s ex-editors: Prabda Yoon, Worapoj Panpong and Pinyo Trisuriyatamma
- Books Launch: Last Conversation (Interview with Rong Wongsawan) by Worapoj Panpong (Typhoon Books) and Yeewha China Town, a long story never been published before by Rong Wongsawan (openbooks)
+ Sunday 24 May 2009 (6 pm)
- Tomorn Sukpreecha and GM Books team with the Book Launch of Rong Wongsawan’s Fangpuang A-Ngoon.
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In the Shadow of Time of Rong Wongsawan
On View from 1 May to 7 June 2009
Opening Party: Friday 1 May 2009 (6 pm onward)
Venue: People Space
(Open only on Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am to 7 pm)
For more information, please call 081 5491002
Email: people.space@yahoo.com
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