| Athit Perawongmetha is a self taught photographer with a background in computer engineering. He has worked for numerous travel and lifestyle magazines, working across commercial, studio, portrait, interior and architecture photography. In addition he has worked as a photojournalist for the International Herald Tribune ThaiDay as well the Getty Image News Agency covering a variety of events across Thailand and other Asian countries. He has also contributed to numerous projects with UNICEF (Thailand), Greenpeace Southeast Asia, Save the Children (Sweden) and National Geographic (Thai Edition). His works have been published in Time Magazine, The Guardian, UK, the International Herald Tribune and many more. He has also won numerous awards for his work in photojournalism. In 2011 he had his first solo show Athits’s eye on Japan Earthquake, in Bangkok.
Exhibition Note:
Red Shirt and Thailand’s Political Crisis document the climactic arson attacks on Central World in Bangkok during the 2010 political protests by the National United Front of Democracy Against Dictators (UDD) popularly known as the Red Shirts. The UDD called for Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to dissolve parliament and hold elections earlier than the end of term elections scheduled in 2012. The UDD demanded that the government stand down, and negotiations failed to set an election date. The protests escalated into prolonged violent confrontations between the protesters and the military, and attempts to negotiate a ceasefire failed. More than 80 civilians and 6 soldiers were killed, and more than 2,100 were injured by the time the military successfully dispersed protesters on 19 May.
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