Post-Repost-Share is a Southeast Asia photography exhibition as part of PhotoBangkok 2018, an international photography festival organised by Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) and PhotoBangkok in collaboration with cultural organizations and gallery partners. The festival consists of exhibitions, workshops, seminars, talks, and competitions, all of which are held at BACC and in various galleries in Bangkok, Thailand.
Post-Repost-Share surveys a contemporary relationship between photographs and viewers. Photograph was once considered as one of the static media printed on paper. Since the beginning of the 21st century, social media has changed the way people use their camera, the way they present their photographs, and the way the photographs are looked at forever. Photographs are posted, reposted, and shared among millions of people across all regions. The properties of photograph has been changed from being still and fixed to being flexible and spreadable among millions of people throughout the world.
Post-Repost-Share presents photographs captured by photojournalists, visual artists, commercial photographers, archivists, social activists, forensic scientists, and astronomers all residing and working in Southeast Asia. Their photographs present contemporary narratives and issues ranging from optimism, for example love, natural exuberance, and locals’ attempt to solve certain problems, to hardship, for example, poverty in capitalism, state-based conflicts, and unforgettable history. In any case, viewers can enjoy the magic of photographs that are capable of reminding them of what happened in their life, and, at the same, evoking emotions towards narratives they might or might not experience before. The narrative methods of the photography in this exhibition are various. Some photographic images reveal contents that can be told in a candid and straightforward manner, whereas some photographers necessarily create kinds of symbolic representation to reveal either sensitive or controversial contents of certain situations.
Post-Repost-Share invites viewers to relate various social contexts of Southeast Asia together. Viewing a particular contemporary narrative of one of the Southeast Asian countries may stimulate the viewers to remember other similar narratives that take place in their home country. Similarity between the situations presented via the photographs in the exhibition and those remembered in mind is hoped to encourage viewers to build a concept of looking outward, blurring state borders, and realising shared narratives and issues in different areas over the region.
Lastly, Post-Repost-Share is very much hoped to encourage the viewers to conceive photography as a powerful tool that allows photographers to tell a truth, and to represent the attitudes, the perspectives, and the psychological implications of real people in Southeast Asia.
The Goethe-Institut Thailand and Bangkok Art and Culture Centre presents the annual exhibition “German Photo Post-Repost-Share is a Southeast Asia photography exhibition as part of PhotoBangkok 2018, an international photography festival organised by Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) and PhotoBangkok in collaboration with cultural organizations and gallery partners. The festival consists of exhibitions, workshops, seminars, talks, and competitions, all of which are held at BACC and in various galleries in Bangkok, Thailand.
Post-Repost-Share surveys a contemporary relationship between photographs and viewers. Photograph was once considered as one of the static media printed on paper. Since the beginning of the 21st century, social media has changed the way people use their camera, the way they present their photographs, and the way the photographs are looked at forever. Photographs are posted, reposted, and shared among millions of people across all regions. The properties of photograph has been changed from being still and fixed to being flexible and spreadable among millions of people throughout the world.
Post-Repost-Share presents photographs captured by photojournalists, visual artists, commercial photographers, archivists, social activists, forensic scientists, and astronomers all residing and working in Southeast Asia. Their photographs present contemporary narratives and issues ranging from optimism, for example love, natural exuberance, and locals’ attempt to solve certain problems, to hardship, for example, poverty in capitalism, state-based conflicts, and unforgettable history. In any case, viewers can enjoy the magic of photographs that are capable of reminding them of what happened in their life, and, at the same, evoking emotions towards narratives they might or might not experience before. The narrative methods of the photography in this exhibition are various. Some photographic images reveal contents that can be told in a candid and straightforward manner, whereas some photographers necessarily create kinds of symbolic representation to reveal either sensitive or controversial contents of certain situations.
Post-Repost-Share invites viewers to relate various social contexts of Southeast Asia together. Viewing a particular contemporary narrative of one of the Southeast Asian countries may stimulate the viewers to remember other similar narratives that take place in their home country. Similarity between the situations presented via the photographs in the exhibition and those remembered in mind is hoped to encourage viewers to build a concept of looking outward, blurring state borders, and realising shared narratives and issues in different areas over the region.
Lastly, Post-Repost-Share is very much hoped to encourage the viewers to conceive photography as a powerful tool that allows photographers to tell a truth, and to represent the attitudes, the perspectives, and the psychological implications of real people in Southeast Asia.