In "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game", Chris Shaw returns to material similar to his first successful series "Life as a Night Porter", but instead of London hotels, we're in the midst of the bustling nightlife of a Thai resort where he manages to find beauty in sordid situations.
Pattaya is a seaside resort in Thailand, 150 km south of Bangkok, famous for its go-go bars, hedonistic atmosphere and links with organized crime. The nightlife of ladybugs, go-goers, clubs, bars and prostitution will soon be swept away. All will be but a memory, like Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of fin de siècle Paris. The power of the new Chinese economy is reflected in the growth of organized mass tourism, slowly leading to a clean-up of Pattaya. The photographs document the end of an era.
Published by Zen Photo Gallery, 2019
24 × 31 cm
76 pages
ISBN: 9784905453857
In "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game", Chris Shaw returns to material similar to his first successful series "Life as a Night Porter", but instead of London hotels, we're in the midst of the bustling nightlife of a Thai resort where he manages to find beauty in sordid situations.
Pattaya is a seaside resort in Thailand, 150 km south of Bangkok, famous for its go-go bars, hedonistic atmosphere and links with organized crime. The nightlife of ladybugs, go-goers, clubs, bars and prostitution will soon be swept away. All will be but a memory, like Toulouse-Lautrec's paintings of fin de siècle Paris. The power of the new Chinese economy is reflected in the growth of organized mass tourism, slowly leading to a clean-up of Pattaya. The photographs document the end of an era.
Published by Zen Photo Gallery, 2019
24 × 31 cm
76 pages
ISBN: 9784905453857
