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I'll send you a postcard - just because

A few months ago I offered up some advice on taking the pressure off of travel photography. The suggestion I made can be summed up as this - pick a simple motif and gather images of it during the trip. That way you’ll come out the other side with a set of images that are made effective by being in a group. If you’ve ever felt the stress of needing a powerful collection of singular images that represent your travels with poise and acuity, this is your cheat code.

Here’s a set of Japanese quiet corners I photographed in Fukuoka

I had this in mind while I was in Thailand recently. I was there to shoot music, but I also got in some street photography while sweating through Bangkok’s back-alleys.

The thing that struck me immediately about Bangkok, other than its furnace-like atmosphere, was the complexity of its colour. The city is relentlessly colourful, a complexity of hues made vibrant by the hot sun.

Here are some of my attempts at harnessing that panchromatic display, excising which hues I could to make it all look intentional.

I came out of Bangkok with one other motif. The walls there are full of life, grime and graffiti, and the confluence of all three turned out to be quite photogenic.

I know, I know. As one of my favorite Magnetic Fields lines goes, drag another cliche howling from the vaults. Still, I thought there was something to them, so I turned them into a set of postcards.

9 in total…

…and rounded corners to boot.

If you want one of these postcards, please send me a private message with your address¹ and I’ll post one to you with a little handwritten note on the back. Proof that some of what we see on the internet has real people, AKA me, behind it.

Cheers,

Chris✌️

1. I promise I’m not a weirdo. At least not the kind that would show up at your house.