CONTRIBUTOR

Lau Wen Huat

FOUNDER & PUBLISHER
ZONTIGA
Lau writes on photobook culture, Southeast Asian practitioners, and the ideas that shape how the region sees itself through the lens. Founder and executive publisher of Zontiga since 2020, working across editorial, curation, and community programming since 2023.
11 PUBLISHED PIECES

Articles

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.
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.
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.
Spaces & infrastructure
October 8, 2025

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.
Southeast Asia
September 9, 2025

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.