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Dow Wasiksiri is a professional photographer who started his schooling in New Zealand then studied in Los Angeles at the Los Angeles City College from 1976-1978, from where he graduated with a degree of Associate in Arts. Later he went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts in Radio and Television Broadcasting from California State University in 1981. After returning to Thailand he stated his photographic career and in 1983 established his own photographic studio called Persona. His professional work involves a range of assignments from fashion through to documenting commercial business activity in the South East Asian region.
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Dow WasiksiriMy ThaiKulcha Club (above the Dome Restaurant on Sth Terrace, Fremantle)
5th April – 4th of May. The official opening will be Tuesday the 8th April at 6pm.
For two decades Thai photographer Dow Wasiksiri has explored through his camera’s lens the psychology of Thais in their habitat. Dow Wasiksiri says that he photographs the Thai way of life “with a quizzical eye” to show the Thailand he knows, lives and feels. In this series of photographs he explores the Thai way of life away from the visitor’s gaze to reveal the unselfconscious behavior of Thais in all their playful contradictions.
Dow says of this work, “I show the people and scenes I encounter just as they represent themselves in public, without judgment. You can see the impromptu, shared way that Thais tackle everything, from eating, exercise and worship, to markets, hair-dos and having their photograph taken. Being a Buddhist, I was raised to treat situations with detachment; not easy, but it breeds a useful discipline. I shoot something unexpected, then let it go.”
Dow says that, “Thailand supplies plenty of unexpected moments. The country’s particular rhythms and priorities can seem bizarre or chaotic to the observer. To compound the mystique, visitors are presented with contrived, idealized images of ‘Thainess’ by Thais ourselves. We prefer to show outer decorum for reasons of face. So countless published views of Thailand are staged and styled. The contrivance and the reality rarely match, leading to startling juxtapositions. Through these frames, I aim to reveal the unselfconscious behaviour of Thais, in all its playful contradiction.
“Celebrating popular culture is a hot-button issue in Thailand, where officialdom seeks to determine what ‘Thainess’ and Thai culture should be. My portfolio expresses through photography a zeitgeist emergent across many genres – music, media, art, writing, film, dance, design – that reappraises ‘Thainess’ and savours it, unabashed. This is how we are.”
“Taken as a whole, the (photographs) represent scenes in the transformation of a people. You become a witness to the onslaught of globalization as it collides with ancient ways. The themes you see in the popular culture of this rising Asian Tiger resonate with the hybrid development of Thailand’s neighbors. However hard that collision, the Thais meet it with the one exotic cliché that holds true: smiles.”
