"Sadness Each Day" by Sumate Boontawee
“Photography is a way for me to express my sadness that words couldn’t describe. I want to convey the shifting of emotional states through the changes of scenery each day at the same location, which is my own backyard.”
“Sadness Each Day,” a project by Sumate Boontawee a photographer from Uttaradit, Thailand, examines the primal human emotion of sadness. “I have a tendency to experience depression and I’m quite an introvert so I usually don’t talk to anyone about this even my family.”
In the beginning, Sumate uses photography as a therapeutic method for his condition, and his backyard overlooking a rice field act as a safe space in which he let his emotions roam free. “ I rarely set any goal when I go out to shoot, just let my thoughts at the moment do its work.” His project often feels like reading a poem, not many words but each word pierced right into our emotional core. Just like each of his photos, clean but when put together feel as if we are hooked and reeled into his emotional state; taking a stroll through his backyard of sadness.
