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Akkara
Akkara Naktamna was born in Bangkok in 1979 and started shooting as a self-taught photographer in 2008 influenced by Elliott Erwitt's book and a comedy movie named "Pecker". His works have been shown widely both in Thailand and abroad such as IPA Street Photography Asia Award 2013 (Singapore), Miami Street Photography Festival 2013 (USA), Xishuangbana Photo Festival 2014 (China), Photo Bangkok Festival 2015, Singapore Photo Festival 2016, etc. In 2016 Akkara made a zine named " SIGNS" which was a shortlist of the Anamorphosis Prize 2016 and also was collected at MoMA Library Collection. He founded Good Art Book: a website for promoting Thai self-published art book, c-Type Magazine: a blog for featuring interesting photo series around the globe, and co-founded Street Photo Thailand collective. Currently Akkara works as a software engineer, has one adorable daughter, and spends his free time for photography.
Awards
Honorable Mention of the International Photography Awards (IPA) in 2009
Honorable Mention of The Everyman Photo Contest 2009
Special Mention Award of the IPA Street Photography Asia Award 2013
Finalist of Miami Street Photography Festival 2013
Shortlist of the International Street Photography Award 2014
Finalist of Urban Picnic Street Photography Competition 2014
Finalist of The 2014 EyeEm Awards
Honorable Mention of Prix de la Photographie Paris 2015
Shortlist of Anamorphosis Prize 2016
Group Exhibitions & Showcases & Collections
The Commemoration of Prince Naris Day 2009, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
The Commemoration of Prince Naris Day 2010, Silpakorn University, Bangkok, Thailand
'Bangkok Now!' selected work from in-public's workshop 2013, BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
'Unposed Bangkok' (2013) group exhibition at BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
Miami Street Photography Festival 2013, Art Basel, Miami, United States
Southeast Asia Photo Showcase in the Xishuangbana Photo Festival 2014, China
Urban Picnic Street Photography Competition 2014, Saffron Walden, UK
'A Road to Paris', Maison de la Chine, Paris, France.
The 2014 EyeEm Festival, Berlin, New York, San Francisco, Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro
APF Collective Showcase
Slideluck in Bangkok 2014, The Space Bangkok, Thailand
Pounding the Pavement 2015 at Cho Why, Yaowarat, Bangkok
'Subconscious' (2015) group exhibition at BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
'The Workspace' group exhibition by HUBBA-TO x Canon Thailand
Singapore International Photo Festival 2016
The Anamorphosis Prize 2016's Shortlist Present at NYC Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1
Franklin Furnace Archive, New York
MoMA Library Collection, New York
Chiang Mai Photo Festival 2017
Inpages : Art Book Showcase: (in)THAILAND 2017, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Solo Exhibition
Signs - Kathmandu Photo Gallery, Bangkok (Photo Bangkok Festival 2015)
Featured Works
Books
Street Works (Sold Out)
Signs
Ordinary People and Places
Human Being
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
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