Thai Politics no.9 presents a series of images sourced from the internet of Prayut Chan-o-cha greeting world leaders at the ASEAN Summit.
The Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit (ASEAN) is a biannual meeting of the Southeast Asian countries that fosters economic, politic and socio-cultural development of member states. The summit is regularly joined by world leaders to help tackle various global issues. Despite not having a cabinet in place, Prayut Chan-o-cha represented Thailand at the event.
'Thai Politics' is an ongoing series developed from the first major protest in Bangkok since 2006. Whilst exploring the differing political attitudes in Bangkok, the project also examines photography within an image rich world, from the rise of smart phone, proliferation of social media through to generative AI. Punctuating each addition to the series is not only a different dimension to people's political views and behaviours, but also a different approach to how they are captured and presented. This includes curating images found across social media (Thai Politics no.2, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11) to the more traditional approach of digital and film photography (Thai politics no.1, 3, 5 and 6).