I’m still finding a few more mentions of my show (which closes in two weeks), this one is from the June 2010 issue of SlimUP magazine.
I’m still finding a few more mentions of my show (which closes in two weeks), this one is from the June 2010 issue of SlimUP magazine.
Ramkhamhaeng has its own TV station which is broadcast in Thailand via satellite. This ran late in June of 2010 and covers topics including my studies at Ram, being a foreigner at Ram and my photo exhibit. Subtitles added my me after.
The name of the show สาระดีดี (saara-dede) is a bit of a pun. The word สารคดิ (saara-kade) means documentary, and ดีดี (dede) is a way of saying that something is good. Here they take the first part of the word used to mean documentary (สาระ sara) which comes from the Sanskrit meaning something like main subject matter, and then combine it with the word meaning good. The resulting word used as the means “good subject matter” AND sounds remarkably similar to the word which means documentary.
มหาวิทยาลัยรามคำแหงมีช่องโทรทัศน์ของเขาเอง ซึ่งออกทั้วประเทศผ่านดาวเทียม รายการนี้มาสัมภาษณ์กับผมที่ Kathmandu Gallery และพูดถึงสิ่งอย่าง วิชาที่ผมเรียน การเป็นนักเรียนต่างชาติที่ราม และนิทรรศการภาพถ่ายนั้นเองครับ ออกช่วงปลายเดือนมิถุนายม
Job Request magazine came and interviewed me at the gallery a few weeks ago, and ran this article today … don’t stress too much if you can’t read the Thai, it’s relatively similar to the ones that have appeared in English. The show still runs until the end of the month, hurry and see it if you haven’t already.
บทสัมภาษณ์จากนิตยสาร Job Request
นิทรรศการเปิดแสดงถึงสิ้นเดือนนี้ใครที่ยังไม่ได้ไป ยังมีเวลาครับ
(click the image to download the full version)
This ran in late June, 2010 on Thailand’s channel 7 evening news program (subtitles added by me).
นิทรรศการรามในสะเก็ดข่าว ปลายเดือนมิถุนายม ๒๕๕๓
| Click the image to read the scan from the newspaper, read it here online or if the online one disappears, you can check out a PDF version here. |
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Luke’s aim, however, is not to produce masterpieces: he finds rather than creates.
This apparent weakness has been transformed here into a power. The totality of the works combine together – that is the photographer and his camera symbiotically merge into the subject – much as Ramkhamhaeng University binds itself with its multitude of diverse students, creating something unique not only to Thailand, but the entire world.
This portrait, while not being of one individual, nevertheless speaks volumes of the men and women from all walks of life that challenge themselves to sit in the empty classrooms Luke documents. And like any good portraiture it reveals the character of the subject, an institution as open to the Everyman as is the camera itself, a device that requires no special artistic training to liberate and communicate.
Don’t stress if you can’t read the Thai, it’s similar to the Back To The Classroom article from the Bangkok Post. Click for the full version.
