Places

Features on the labs, bookstores, clubs, and cities where photography lives, across Malaysia, Southeast Asia and beyond.

 

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.
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.
Southeast Asia
April 29, 2025

Zontiga at the 20th Angkor Photo Festival: A Journey into Southeast Asia’s Vibrant Photography Scene

Zontiga travels to Siem Reap for the 20th Angkor Photo Festival, one of Southeast Asia's longest-running platforms for photographic storytelling.
Essays
March 29, 2025

Street Photography in Hong Kong: From Fan Ho to the Modern Masters

From Fan Ho to today's modern masters, how Hong Kong's dense, contradictory streets became one of the world's great stages for street photography.

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