Say something about yourself?

My name is Withit Chanthamarit. I lived in Bangkok.

I did photography but not in the advertising field. Sometimes I did stage photographer for a theatrical plays and still photographer for films.

Lately, I’ve a chance to be a location scout for a films and I found it matched with my photographic approach. It was a good chance to travel around the country. There are many many things I didn’t know about Thailand and also the Thainess



What is this project?

Loss & found was my very first project which I did 5 years ago when the great flood hit Bangkok in 2011.

I depict my neighbourhood area which linked with my childhood moments.

When I was a children, I used to walk around my housing estate looking to each houses every evening.

Then again when the flood was hit my house. There were ton of garbage bags and disfunction furnitures thrown out in front of every house. I walk and observing and then taking photographs.






Why did you start making this project?

It was an incident, Miti Ruangkritya who is also a photographer had asked me to accompanied him during the night shoot for his project around Bangkok, and there were another two photographers, Rasiguet Sookarn and Soopakorn Srisakul came along with.

We went together for several times, but when the situation getting better, I went back to my house in Laksi district which also flooded. While I was do a routine cleaning in day time, I start to realised that every houses must have had the same damage as my house did. So I started photographing my own house first and then the neighbourhood area which came out into two projects at the same time, Loss & found and Goin’ home.



How long will you work on this project? Is it finished yet?

Yes it was done already. I did this project for around 2 weeks.

What’s your next project? Have you been working on it?

I would love to do a Thailand road trip project. I start shooting some when I did scouting.