Akkara Naktamna Photography

Born in Bangkok in 1979. Started shooting as a self-taught photographer in 2008 influenced by an Elliott Erwitt's book and a comedy movie called Pecker. His works have been shown widely both in Thailand and abroad such as IPA Street Photography Asia Award 2013, Miami Street Photography Festival 2013, Xishuangbana Photo Festival 2014, Photo Bangkok Festival 2015, Singapore Photo Festival 2016, NYC Art Book Fair 2016. SIGNS his zine is also collected by Franklin Furnace Archive and MoMA Library. He co-founded Street Photo Thailand collective, founded Good Art Book, and c-Type Magazine. Currently Akkara works as a software engineer, has one adorable daughter, and spends his a little bit free time for photography.

Awards

2009 Honorable Mention of the International Photography Awards (IPA) in 2009
2009 Honorable Mention of The Everyman Photo Contest 2009
2013 Special Mention Award of the IPA Street Photography Asia Award 2013
2013 Finalist of Miami Street Photography Festival 2013
2013 Shortlist of the International Street Photography Award 2014
2014 Finalist of Urban Picnic Street Photography Competition 2014
2014 Finalist of The 2014 EyeEm Awards
2015 Honorable Mention of Prix de la Photographie Paris 2015
2016 Shortlist of Anamorphosis Prize 2016

Group Exhibitions & Showcases & Collections

2009 The Commemoration of Prince Naris Day 2009, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
2010 The Commemoration of Prince Naris Day 2010, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
2013 'Bangkok Now!' selected work from in-public's workshop 2013, BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
2013 'Unposed Bangkok' (2013) group exhibition at BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
2013 Miami Street Photography Festival 2013, Art Basel, Miami, United States
2014 Southeast Asia Photo Showcase in the Xishuangbana Photo Festival 2014, China
2014 Urban Picnic Street Photography Competition 2014, Saffron Walden, UK
2014 'A Road to Paris', Maison de la Chine, Paris, France.
2014 The 2014 EyeEm Festival, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro
2014 Slideluck in Bangkok 2014, The Space Bangkok, Thailand
2015 'Subconscious' (2015) group exhibition at BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
2016 'The Workspace' group exhibition by HUBBA-TO x Canon Thailand
2016 Singapore International Photo Festival 2016
2016 The Anamorphosis Prize 2016's Shortlist Present at NYC Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1
2016 Franklin Furnace Archive, New York
2016 MoMA Library Collection, New York
2017 Chiang Mai Photo Festival 2017
2017 Inpages : Art Book Showcase: (in)THAILAND 2017, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
2017 CEPIC Congress 2017 - Zine Showing curated by PiB Photography in Berlin, Germany
2018 Laatikkomo exhibition, Finland
2018 Art on a Postcard, The Other Art Fair Bristol, UK
2018 The Photobook, Street Photo Thailand, BACC, Bangkok
2018 Thai New Wave, PhotoBangkok 2018, BACC, Bangkok

Solo Exhibition

Signs - Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok (Photo Bangkok Festival 2015)

Featured Works

Books

Street Works (Sold Out)
Signs
Ordinary People and Places

Workshops

Guest Speaker, Art Photo Feature Street Photography Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand 2014
Guest Speaker, IPA Street Photography Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand 2014
Speaker, Leica Street Photography Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand 2014