by Maoyi | Nov 22, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
Between hearts, butterflies, and flower emojis, twenty-three-year-old Thai artist Kraiwitch Tungsomboon tells about his photographic projects. He’s fresh out of college but already with an array of eye-catching series showing a playful and humorous approach to...
by SubtropicalAsia | May 10, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
Recently, the work of Chinese photographer Zhang Jingran in Chengdu caught our attention. The artist who claims ” just to hang around” records the urban landscapes and the vague-looking urbanites which collide within Chinese modern and traditional...
by SubtropicalAsia | Apr 25, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Highlight Content
Lao Xie Xies likes the unfiltered. His photos are provocative and playful, daring and direct – acts of creative freedom in a not so free society. His photographs are filled with young flesh, dirty and romantic scenes of Chinese city. We sat down with the...
by SubtropicalAsia | Mar 25, 2020 | CULTURE&ART, Videos
<Rebel Riders>, is a film by Dutch cinematographer Marc Aziz Ressang, who has been living in Asia for 8 years. It’s a documentary about Vespa Ekstrim, an Indonesian community where people share their love of modifying their Vespas into outlandish novel hybrid...
by Renxiu Zhao | Mar 18, 2020 | CULTURE&ART
When most people hear the word “monk,” what appears before them is a stereotypical image of a person with a shaved head, isolated from the world in a remote temple living a life of sacrifice and abstinence. A daily ritual that starts well before dawn, invoking washing...