Photographer Highlight | Naraphat Sakarthornsap
Selected images from Naraphat Sakarthornsap, an artist based in Bangkok, Thailand. His work touches issues of social inequality and sexuality “I presents stories of social inequality through my photographs. Many kinds of flowers that I use usually come with profound meanings.”
His work started as a coping outlet of his frustration towards society. “The day I confessed about my sexuality, I got my feelings hurt. They took my story and spread it around for fun.” He expanded feelings of vulnerability and delicacy of the issue itself through photographing the subjects bare, composed together with different kinds flowers. “During our shoots, we would exchange life stories and, without judgement, we ‘conversed’ through my lens.” The level of intimacy in his work is through the roof, not to mention how he convey it in such a soft and gentle manner. A true piece of art full of different colors of nature just like sexualities that come in many different shapes and forms. “By exposing my models, I feel that I fully ‘exposed’ myself. They were willingly be ‘naked’ for me and through mutual trust, I bared my soul.”
