Akkara


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.