In Thai news television channels, they would use blurring faces of people for preventing their rights. Especially in crime news many faces would be censored and sometimes it’s quite confused between victims and criminals by those faces. Probably they both aren’t different; being killed repeatingly, sold by cold blood news sellers for viewers who are waiting for exciting tragic news and eating them both together with their dinners.
Akkara Naktamna was 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, he co-founded Street Photo Thailand. Akkara was selected 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; it was archived by Franklin Furnace Archive and MoMA Library as part of the Anamorphosis Prize. Akkara created an e-magazine called CTypeMag for promoting interesting photo series around the globe and followed with the 99 Thai New Photographers project. In 2020, Akkara was nominated for the World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass by Manit Sriwanichpoom.
