We Publish Photography: Learning from AKAAKA
AKAAKA Art Publishing was founded in 2006. Since then, founder Kimi Himeno and her team have built a remarkable catalogue of photography and art books, working with both emerging and established photographers while exploring what a photobook can be. For us, Looking at AKAAKA reminds us why we chose to publish photography in the first place.
Reading William Eggleston (II): Reading Guide
Published for William Eggleston’s landmark 1976 MoMA exhibition, William Eggleston’s Guide remains essential reading nearly fifty years later. More than a mere catalogue, it demonstrates how editing and visual rhythm can transform individual snapshots into a coherent, authored experience that teaches us how to see.
Reading William Eggleston (I): Learning to See the Ordinary
William Eggleston’s 1976 MoMA exhibition revolutionized photography, but his legacy transcends the mere validation of color. Through his landmark work, Eggleston proved that extraordinary photography begins not with exceptional subjects, but with an extraordinary way of seeing the ordinary world.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reading Photographs: Cultivating a Practice of Looking at Zontiga
Zontiga’s Reading Photographs sessions invite people to slow down and read photobooks together, treating looking as a practice to be cultivated.
Seeing Ourselves, Seeing Each Other: KLPA & South Ho in Penang
Zontiga joins KLPA in Penang for its annual awards exhibition at Hin Bus Depot, alongside work by Hong Kong artist South Ho.
Yoese Mariam: A Visual Memoir in Two Acts
Yoese Mariam’s photobooks Three Photos Left and Landep form a visual memoir on grief, memory, family and cultural inheritance.