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Issue 04 · Hold Still Who gets to decide how this city is photographed. September 2026 ๒๕๖๙
Issue 04 · Hold Still

Portrait · Talat Noi ตลาดน้อย

Everything Here Still Turns

For thirty-one years a workshop off a Talat Noi side street has repaired the same electric fans. The neighbours keep bringing them back, and that is the whole business model.

September 1, 2026/2 min read/Demo

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FASNobody Here Is WaitingPORThe Sunday FramerBOOThe Bookshop That Opens at SixRESSixteen Seats, One Menu
Demonstration photograph. An open shopfront in Bangkok with two men sitting inside among fridges and stacked goods.

In this issue

6 more piecesEvery issue →
04Hold Still
  1. FashionNobody Here Is WaitingCharoen Krung เจริญกรุง
  2. PortraitThe Sunday FramerCharoen Krung เจริญกรุง
  3. BookshopThe Bookshop That Opens at SixTalat Noi ตลาดน้อย
  4. RestaurantSixteen Seats, One MenuBang Rak บางรัก
  5. ConversationRoom ToneThonburi ธนบุรี
  6. Bangkok StoriesThe Last Light in the LaundryEnglish

Also in Issue 04 · Fashion

Nobody Here Is Waiting

A stylist who books her own jobs, shoots her own lookbooks and has firm opinions about what Bangkok is supposed to look like on camera.

Charoen Krung เจริญกรุง/3 min read

Side B Sessions

Filmed conversations, about fifteen minutes
Demonstration photograph. A Bangkok street at dusk under neon signs, with a purple sky above the shophouses.
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Session 03 · Thonburi ธนบุรี

Room Tone

A rehearsal room engineer in Thonburi on the acoustics of a hundred-year-old shophouse, and why he records the street outside as carefully as the band inside.

The series

One conversation an issue, about fifteen minutes, filmed where the person works. No studio, no panel, nobody talking over anyone.

Running time

Taken from the finished file. No video is connected yet, so this issue shows no duration rather than a made up one.

Open the session

People, in focus

From earlier issuesAll people →
Demonstration photograph. An older woman working at a street food stall, cooking over a pan.
PortraitDemo

One Hundred and Forty Crossings

Bang Rak บางรัก
Demonstration photograph. A woman cooking on a boat at a floating market, surrounded by pans and baskets.
ConversationDemo

Two Rooms Above the Canal

Thonburi ธนบุรี
Demonstration photograph. A Chinatown street by day under a blue sky, hung with vertical signs.
ConversationDemo

The Tailor Who Works Nights

Yaowarat เยาวราช

New in BKK

Places worth knowingAll places →
Demonstration photograph. A dark wooden interior with a bench beneath a window of small glass panes.
Bookshop

The Bookshop That Opens at Six

Talat Noi
Demonstration photograph. Rows of glasses with metal coffee filters set out along a counter.
Restaurant

Sixteen Seats, One Menu

Bang Rak
Demonstration photograph. A narrow lane with mismatched chairs and small tables set out against a painted wall.
Coffee

Coffee Under the Expressway

Phra Khanong
Demonstration photograph. A modern shop interior with a counter, pendant lights and a pale chair.
Gallery

A Gallery in a Car Park

Ari

Bangkok Stories

Short fiction, clearly labelledAll stories →
Demonstration photograph. Ink wash drawing: laundry hanging on a line in the rain in front of a lit window.
EnglishDemo

The Last Light in the Laundry

Sample story. A neighbourhood laundry, the last train of the night, and a door nobody quite closes.

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Also in fiction

Before the Rain Starts

EnglishDemoSample story, English. Two people on a balcony in the twenty minutes when the sky has already decided and nothing has happened yet.

Every piece states its language. Fiction is never presented as reporting.

Demonstration photograph. A pink-painted coffee shop front with arched glass doors.

The magazine

BKK SIDE B is a small magazine about Bangkok. A cover story, a filmed conversation, a few places and a short story per issue. Everyone gets the same care in front of the camera, whether they run a gallery or a repair bench.

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