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By Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu · Posted
A discussion of the form of the photographic (film) essay, and how it answers some of the problems facing Muay Thai photography today: -
By Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu · Posted
One of the struggles of photography in today's incredibly fragmenting but also homogenizing digital age is how to tell stories, convey ideas, through still images. One can stand out from other types through unique lenses or even camera choices, but also the form of expression itself is often extremely platform-determined. Feeds on Instagram feed people. In the film short of still photographs above I'm experimenting with some of my priors. I want to use telephoto lenses to penetrate contexts, and get in touch with the very affects of a fighting scene. I'm usually focused on fighters in this way, but in this case it's a ringside gambler at a provincial festival show. Aside from his face, it really was his shifting, expressive hands which seemed to work in a secret language (invoking gambling signalling itself, but really was a close-to-the-vest unconscious reaction to everything happening in the ring), that called this short into being. Successive images somewhat breakdown by also simultaneously participate in a "film" meaning, I think allowing still photography a certain avenue of reading it wouldn't otherwise have. The sound track and the spare, poem-ish voiceover work in two directions, against each other some I think, providing a frame for the images...and allow me to give some conceptual focus to the images. My overall theory is really that the bodies of gamblers are participating with the bodies of the fighters in very significant mirroring ways...and this mirroring is central to the production of traditional Muay Thai itself. You can see the theory argued here: As this is a Muay Thai photography subforum, I share this example as a way that I am trying to push for a certain degree of photographic communication that seems almost impossible now. There are no real gallery walls on which photographs will stop-motion-frame express themselves. There are no magazines whose glossy pages will flip and say something. As photographers we need to discover/invent new ways of linking photographs together for a renewed perception of the uniqueness of what a photograph is...the way that it slices life off into a single, graspable, eternal form, that doesn't want to be lost. -
By Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu · Posted
This is the related article theorizing how how local Muay Thai gambling created a complex ecosystem laboratory of fighting skills:
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By Kevin von Duuglas-Ittu · Posted
I'm sorry I don't really know. Sylvie is in touch with a collector and this person is where she buys hers, but there are not multiple copies available. Maybe someone else would know of a larger source. -
Where can I find some physical old Muay Thai magazines? I am located in Bangkok. Thanks -
By Snack Payback · Posted
I can only comment on Perth. There's a very active Muay Thai scene here - regular shows. Plenty of gyms across the city with Thai trainers. All gyms offer trial classes so you can try a few out before committing . Direct flights to Bangkok and Phuket as well. Would you be coming over on a working holiday visa? Loads of work around Western Australia at the moment. -
By kkadzielna · Posted
Hi, I'm considering moving to Australia from the UK and I'm curious what is the scene like? Is it easy to fight frequently (proam/pro level), especially as a female? How does it compare to the UK? Any gym recommendations? I'll be grateful for any insights. -
By kkadzielna · Posted
You won't find thai style camps in Europe, because very few people can actually fight full time, especially in muay thai. As a pro you just train at a regular gym, mornings and evenings, sometimes daytime if you don't have a job or one that allows it. Best you can hope for is a gym with pro fighters in it and maybe some structured invite-only fighters classes. Even that is a big ask, most of Europe is gonna be k1 rather than muay thai. A lot of gyms claim to offer muay thai, but in reality only teach kickboxing. I think Sweden has some muay thai gyms and shows, but it seems to be an exception. I'm interested in finding a high-level muay thai gym in Europe myself, I want to go back, but it seems to me that for as long as I want to fight I'm stuck in the UK, unless I switch to k1 or MMA which I don't want to do.
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