Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Prem After Beating #3
Prem after being beaten by her boyfriend #3, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, Khlong Toei Slum, Bangkok, Thailand 2025
Link: THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY will be on CPDP Website
The CBDP, the Centre for British Documentary Photography, will show THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY on their website, thank you David and the good folks there. Will post a link late when everything is online. I am happy the UNDER THE FREEWAY story is starting to reach a larger audience, hopefully more help will come as well.
https://www.centreforbritishdocumentaryphotography.co.uk/
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Prem Crying After Being Beaten
Khun Prem crying after being beaten by her boyfriend Dao #2, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, Khlong Toei Slum, Bangkok, Thailand 2025
Note* Was unsure to orientate this picture as a vertical or a horizontal. I think vertical works better. Prem seems to be falling forward in it, creating a more suffocating and desperate feeling to the photograph.
Links: More Info on Yaba
Learning more about the highly addictive drug Yaba tonight. Dao, Prem and Jack smoke Jack as well as Meth. May and Apple only do Meth (Naum Keng) as far as I know.
Note* Yaba is also a form of amphewtamine with caffeine and other dangerous cutting chemicals mixed in.
https://www.ascendantny.com/yaba/
United Nations: Office on Drugs and Crime
Links: Some Possible Interest from the Centre for British Documentary Photography", CBDP
Not sure what form the interest MIGHT take. Possibly a post on their website. If they will help tell the stories of THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY. I am all in!
CENTRE for DOCUMENTARY BRITISH PHOTOGRAPHY
They also have a beautiful magazine called HUMANITY
and a Facebook page
Diptych of Prem and Dao??
Might try to exhibit these two connected images as one platinum-palladium diptych. Dao with crazy YaBa eyes, and Prem crying after Dao attacked her. Two 11x14s in a common mat and frame? Or I might go with different images of this same moment.
Saturday, June 28, 2025
Dao Crying After Being Beaten
Khun Prem crying after being beaten by her boyfriend Dao, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, Khlong Toei Slum, Bangkok, Thailand 2025
New FAMILIES OF THE DUMP Image
Young boy in doorway of his dump shack. THE FAMILIES OF THE DUMP, 2025
Dao Attached, Punching and Beating Prem
This photo is from last night. The freeway lights were not on so I exposed at 25000 ASA and lit the scene with my telephone flashlight. He was angry and talking to Prem constantly before attacking her violently about 1 hour later.
Khun Dao with YaBa (crazy medicine) eyes, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, Khlong Toei Slum, Bangkok, Thailand 2025
Fighting for Food
Tonight, Khun Anne was crying, under the freeway, family problems I think. Ann is 27 and lives with her cats, under the freeway . The old ladies were fighting over some food, gave them some money. II feel part of a family here.
Fighting for food is not something I am used, to see old woman doing so, was even harder to see.
The Dangers and sadness of Ann
Tonight, Khun Anne was crying, under the freeway, family problems I think. Ann is 27 and lives with her cats, under the freeway . The old ladies were fighting over some food, gave them some money. II feel part of a family here.
Wednesday, June 25, 2025
Walking with my Ladies
Took my three ladies to buy some food tonight. We all walked together down the side of a busy road for maybe a kilometre to get to the store. Then we all walked back and shared some food. It was midnight so everything else was closed. Two of the ladies in their late 70s walked barefoot. They are all widows with no husbands or families to take care if them.
When we walked into the 7/11, it seemed they had never been inside the store before in their lives. All confused and fascinated, it was rather strange. Many Thais staring at us, especially me. They must have been wondering who this farang man was, and why he was hanging out with these old gals.
The UNB (University of New Brunswick print buys)gave each of these ladies 100 baht as well. Got thanked more than 10 times. The wais were flying about evertime i turned around. Such good people.
Kinda a surreal event that I will look back with fondness on my return to Canada.
Jack Bathing B/W Versus Color
Jack bathing on the street #3 in B/W and in Color. He is holding the donated shampoo, Jack was going to use clothes washing powder until I gave him the shampoo I was carrying for Khun Apple. The light was rather beautiful, the moment strangely relaxed and peaceful, it was just after midnight.
THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, Khlong Toei Slum, Bangkok, Thailand 2025
Jack Bathing
Khun Jack bathing with a hose, THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, Khlong Toei Slum, Bangok, Thailand 2025
Shot last night.
Remembering Anapon
Bumped into this picture tonight. It is of Khun Anapon (Moo), shot in 2022. THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY.
I found out during this 2025 trip that Anapon had died. He was a former Muay Thai boxer. A good quiet man, who lived a later solitary life of loneliness.
I photographed him staring around 2010. Khun Anapon was the first person I photographed UNDER THE FREEWAY.
Tuesday, June 24, 2025
One From Tonight
One shot from tonight. Now off to sleep its 555am here.
Khun Jack, smoking Naum Keng (meth), THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE UNDER THE FREEWAY, Khlong Toei Slum, Bangkok, Thailand 2025
Monday, June 23, 2025
Tom & Jerry, Cellphone Case
Got this from Prem. The reason I call myself Gerry in Thailand is because every Thai person knows the cartoon Tom & Jerry. I am the mouse!
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