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Southeast Asia
August 5, 2026

Where Film Lives: Inside Bangkok’s Most Welcoming Photography Club

Hidden within Bangkok's Charoen Krung neighbourhood, Fotoclub BKK is more than a film lab. It is a community built around analogue photography, where film, conversation, and creativity come together, reminding us that the best photography spaces are ultimately about people.
Essays
August 1, 2026

From Pictures to Projects: Why Truth Flux Reflects the Continuing Evolution of Tiga Mata

Photography has long celebrated individual images, but Truth Flux brings together eleven projects that invite us to look beyond the single photograph and into the ideas and relationships that shape photographic meaning.
Community
July 26, 2026

Reading Photographs Notes #03

The third Reading Photographs Notes explores three works that challenge a familiar assumption: that a photobook must behave like a book. Together, they prompted conversations about material, memory, authorship, and how the form of a book can become inseparable from the photographs it carries.
Single spotlight
July 15, 2026

Against Legibility: Pale Flare and the Art of Refusal

Pale Flare describes an observation about photographic culture in Thailand, though it applies well beyond. Exhibition statements tend to close down interpretation rather than open it.
Photographer interviews
July 15, 2026

The Invisible Rainbow of Shanghai Remembering a City Through Mi Lu’s Rainbow at Night

Behind Shanghai's familiar skyline exists another city, one that few people ever see. Rainbow at Night is Mi Lu's portrait of that hidden world, and of photography's quiet power to preserve what time eventually takes away.
Essays
July 14, 2026

Write What Lasts a Thousand Years

Write something a person a thousand years from now would understand at once—without footnotes, without the scaffolding of your own era.
Values & Practices
June 30, 2026

Five Issues In: The Journey of Tiga Mata So Far

Five issues in, we’re halfway. Looking back, what matters most isn’t the number. It’s the questions that kept opening up along the way.
June 23, 2026

Manipulation Art in the Age of Truth Flux

Tiga Mata Issue #5: Truth Flux gathers work that retouches, appropriates and reconstructs, treating truth not as a stable destination but as something continually reshaped by technology and interpretation.
Community
June 14, 2026

Reading Photographs Notes #02

The second Reading Photographs Notes gathers conversations inspired by three photobooks that approach family from very different perspectives. Together, they prompted reflections on memory, inheritance, and the ways photographs sometimes help us begin conversations that are otherwise difficult to have.
Essays
June 11, 2026

Between Youth and Visibility: Photography, Queer Identity, and Self-Expression

How young queer people use photography to explore identity, and why the camera becomes a space for self-expression long before self-acceptance.
Community
May 19, 2026

Reading Photographs Notes #01

Although Reading Photographs has been quietly taking place for several months, these are the first notes we've chosen to leave behind. They gather together conversations inspired by three photobooks and the people who made them—an evening of shared observations on quietness, memory, books, and the many ways photographs invite us to slow down and look.
Essays
October 19, 2025

The AI Controversy in Photography: Rethinking Truth, Authorship, and the Image

AI has forced photography to confront what it actually is: a look at authorship, authenticity and ethics when no camera was ever involved.