SUBKKULTURE: New Photobook Shows the Hidden Side of Bangkok

Prepare to have your assumptions about Thailand's capital Bangkok challenged by a new photobook just published on Amazon! SUBKKULTURE: Photography from the Streets of Bangkok, is the work of British photographer Tim Russell, who has spent the last decade documenting life in the Big Mango away from the well-known tourist areas. SUBKKULTURE takes the reader into markets, slums, temples/mosques, villages, boxing gyms, opera shows, and beyond to create a living portrait of one of the world's most exciting cities, captured by the lens of an outsider with a unique perspective on the city and its people.

"Everyone knows - or thinks they know - what Bangkok looks like" says Russell, "but I've spent the last decade capturing what it feels like. Bruce Gilden once said 'If you can smell the street by looking at the photo, it's a street photograph', and that's what I've tried to achieve with SUBKKULTURE - to take the reader below the city's surface and into the streets and alleyways of the city, to feel the heat, smell the food, and get to know the people."

To create SUBKKULTURE, Russell curated a decade's worth of photography - over 100,000 images - into 228 pages, featuring over 300 photographs based around the themes of Work, Fun, Animals, People, Streets, Kids, and Religion. The result is a portrait of the life of one of the world's great cities that encompasses the joy, the sadness, the beauty, the ugliness, and often the downright weirdness of Bangkok life.

"Bangkok is where I learned to really take photographs" says Russell, "and so you should think of SUBKKULTURE both as a love letter to the city, and a document of my first decade as a photographer."

Originally from the UK, Russell moved to Vietnam in 2003 and then to Bangkok in 2012, and he has spent the last decade photographing the city and its residents on a weekly basis. He held his first exhibition - Faces of Khlongtoey, a document of life in Bangkok's slums - in February 2023. His first book, BANGKOK STATION - a document of the final years of Bangkok's much-loved Hualamphong railway station - was published by Soi Books in November 2023. His work has been exhibited worldwide and is regularly featured in The Guardian amongst others.

SUBKKULTURE is available now exclusively on Amazon at https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0D22MCTXX

For more about Tim Russell, visit https://www.timrussellphotography.asia/.

To contact Tim, email tim@timrussellphotography.asia.

Tim Russell Photography
754/133 soi Punnawithi 22
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Originally from the UK, Tim Russell moved to Southeast Asia in 2003 on a one-year contract, and never went home. After a decade in Vietnam he moved to Bangkok in 2012 and it's there that his love affair with photography began.

Much of his spare time is spent on the streets and alleyways of Bangkok photographing the real life of the city, a mission that has so far spawned two exhibitions, several workshops, and two books. His first, BANGKOK STATION, was published on Soi Books in 2023, and his second, SUBKKULTURE, on Amazon in April 2024.

This release was published on openPR.