Photography exhibition by Japanese skater, Ryo Ogawa, 3 - 25 February 2018, at Jam Cafe.
A documentation of Bangkok city buses and its people.
OPENING PARTY DETAILS
7pm - midnight, 3 Feb 2018
Music by DJ TO-RU (Soundscapes of Phrakanong/GOJA) & Dj.TNT Paranormal Djs (Paranormal Djs)
YAN PHAHANA
ve·hi·cle
(noun)
1. a thing used for transporting people or goods, especially on land, such as a car, truck, or cart.
2. a thing used to express, embody, or fulfill something.
Ryo Ogawa examines the working buses of Bangkok, the individuals who depend on them those who operate them. This aging and unglamourous transportation infrastructure and the workers who run it are responsible for carrying everyday people around Bangkok, an often overlooked aspect of Thai life.
RYO OGAWA
Born and raised in Nagoya, Japan, Ryo is a young photographer living in Bangkok. After coming to Thailand to learn English, he fell in love with the city and its people. Currently working for as a videographer for Thai skateboarding company Preduce, he walks in the city with his board and shoots his daily life. Making photography and video is his way to share his vision of this world. Ryo’s work reminds people what they forgot, to inspect what is around them with a curious eye.
https://www.instagram.com/ogawa_ryo/
DJ TNT
An old school DJ that rocks the party. Tean Tae 'TNT' Chayapon is a Thai Turntablist/DJ who grew up in late 90's era, preferring funky hip-hop grooves than EDM. Always supporting all real DJs and respecting the foundation of DJing. His crew Paranormal DJs won DMC World DJ Thailand's Champion team in 2009 & 2010, and TNT has personally been awarded the Pioneer DDJ-SX Competition Champion 2014 and Redbull Thre3styles Thailand Finalist 2015.
DJ TO-RU
A Japanese DJ from Sendai City, a northern city where top Japanese DJs come from such as DJ Kentaro and DJ Mitsu The Beats. He grew up with rock music and encountered hip hop at the age of 16. He fell in love with the turntablism culture and started djing in 1999. That was the time he met DJ Kentaro, who became the champ of DMC DJ Championship 2002 with the difference of a double score in points between him and the second place. To-ru then started scratching and has participated in various DJ competitions such as DMC Japan, ITF Japan to contribute to and establish himself in the turntablist scene in Sendai.Toru’s DJ style is flawless and cross-genre, mixing hip hop to breakbeats, house, reggae to D’N’B. He just takes on quality music regardless of genre and attracts people with his flexibility, creativity and dynamism worldwide.To-ru has been based in Bangkok since 2009 and pursuing his music career energetically.
http://djto-ru.com/
This event is supported by Preduce Skateboards.