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Born in Bangkok in 1979. Started shooting as a self-taught photographer around 2008 influenced by an Elliott Erwitt's book and a comedy movie called Pecker. In 2012, co-founded Street Photo Thailand with fellow street photographers such as Visit Kulsiri, Naruepol Nikomrat, Chatchai Boonyaprapatsara, Noppadol Weerakitti, etc. Akkara was in some finalists of street photography competitions, and photo festivals such as Miami Street Photography Festival 2013, Singapore Photo Festival 2016, Photo Bangkok Festival 2015-2018. Signs — his zine was made in 2016 along with his solo exhibition which was archived by Franklin Furnace Archive and MoMA Library as part of The Anamorphosis Prize. In 2016, he created an e-magazine called CTypeMag for promoting interesting photo series following with a project 99* in 2019 which is about gathering names of 99 Thai new photographers. Currently Akkara works as a software engineer, has one adorable daughter, and spends his a little bit free time for photography.
Awards
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2009 Honorable Mention of the International Photography Awards (IPA) in 2009
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2013 Special Mention Award of the IPA Street Photography Asia Award 2013
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2013 Finalist of Miami Street Photography Festival 2013
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2013 Shortlist of the International Street Photography Award 2014
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2014 Finalist of Urban Picnic Street Photography Competition 2014
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2014 Finalist of The 2014 EyeEm Awards
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2015 Honorable Mention of Prix de la Photographie Paris 2015
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2016 Shortlist of Anamorphosis Prize 2016
Group Exhibitions & Showcases & Collections
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2009 The Commemoration of Prince Naris Day 2009, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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2010 The Commemoration of Prince Naris Day 2010, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
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2013 'Bangkok Now!' selected work from in-public's workshop 2013, BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
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2013 'Unposed Bangkok' (2013) group exhibition at BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
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2013 Miami Street Photography Festival 2013, Art Basel, Miami, United States
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2014 Southeast Asia Photo Showcase in the Xishuangbana Photo Festival 2014, China
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2014 Urban Picnic Street Photography Competition 2014, Saffron Walden, UK
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2014 'A Road to Paris', Maison de la Chine, Paris, France.
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2014 The 2014 EyeEm Festival, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro
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2014 Slideluck in Bangkok 2014, The Space Bangkok, Thailand
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2015 'Subconscious' (2015) group exhibition at BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
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2016 'The Workspace' group exhibition by HUBBA-TO x Canon Thailand
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2016 Singapore International Photo Festival 2016
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2016 The Anamorphosis Prize 2016's Shortlist Present at NYC Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1
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2016 Franklin Furnace Archive, New York
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2016 MoMA Library Collection, New York
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2017 Chiang Mai Photo Festival 2017
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2017 Inpages : Art Book Showcase: (in)THAILAND 2017, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
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2017 CEPIC Congress 2017 - Zine Showing curated by PiB Photography in Berlin, Germany
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2018 Laatikkomo exhibition, Finland
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2018 Art on a Postcard, The Other Art Fair Bristol, UK
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2018 The Photobook, Street Photo Thailand, BACC, Bangkok
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2018 Thai New Wave, PhotoBangkok 2018, BACC, Bangkok
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2019 Dali International Photo Festival, China
Solo Exhibition
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2015 Signs - Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok (Photo Bangkok Festival 2015)
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2018 Signs - SPACE PLACE Contemporary Art Gallery, Nizhny Tagil, Russia
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2019 Demonic - Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok
Featured Works
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