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URBAN Book Award 2022 Winner
Sakulchai Sikitikul – Life explore soul
A good book has surprises, with the framing of a photograph, the relationship between images and the sequences as pages turn.
Life Explore Soul invites this level of engagement for a viewer, through its juxtapositions, directing our eyes with multiple focal points, perspective shifts, and mysterious elements. At times one is unsure if these are images captured in a camera or constructed through collage.
Sometimes his pictures seem obvious, then more enigmatic, as they show life of the everyday as seemingly surreal, often with jarring and provocative contrasts and unexpected associations.
We do feel some of Sakulchai’s inspiration, as he himself acknowledges, in the work of HCB, Alex Webb, Harry Gruyaert and perhaps others, through his use of shadow, light, color and gesture. However, it is the combination of his vision in the landscape within which he is working which is most impressive as he shapes his seeing of the surrounding world and makes it more visible to us all.
Susan Meiselas / URBAN 2022 Jury President – Books
A good book has surprises, with the framing of a photograph, the relationship between images and the sequences as pages turn.
Life Explore Soul invites this level of engagement for a viewer, through its juxtapositions, directing our eyes with multiple focal points, perspective shifts, and mysterious elements. At times one is unsure if these are images captured in a camera or constructed through collage.
Sometimes his pictures seem obvious, then more enigmatic, as they show life of the everyday as seemingly surreal, often with jarring and provocative contrasts and unexpected associations.
We do feel some of Sakulchai’s inspiration, as he himself acknowledges, in the work of HCB, Alex Webb, Harry Gruyaert and perhaps others, through his use of shadow, light, color and gesture. However, it is the combination of his vision in the landscape within which he is working which is most impressive as he shapes his seeing of the surrounding world and makes it more visible to us all.
Susan Meiselas / URBAN 2022 Jury President – Books
Life Explore Soul invites this level of engagement for a viewer, through its juxtapositions, directing our eyes with multiple focal points, perspective shifts, and mysterious elements. At times one is unsure if these are images captured in a camera or constructed through collage.
Sometimes his pictures seem obvious, then more enigmatic, as they show life of the everyday as seemingly surreal, often with jarring and provocative contrasts and unexpected associations.
We do feel some of Sakulchai’s inspiration, as he himself acknowledges, in the work of HCB, Alex Webb, Harry Gruyaert and perhaps others, through his use of shadow, light, color and gesture. However, it is the combination of his vision in the landscape within which he is working which is most impressive as he shapes his seeing of the surrounding world and makes it more visible to us all.
Susan Meiselas / URBAN 2022 Jury President – Books
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