Manit Sriwanichpoom

Manit Sriwanichpoom (Thai: มานิต ศรีวานิชภูมิ, born 27 September 1961) is a Thai photographer, writer, contemporary artist and social activist. His notable work is a photo set called Pink Man. The set consists of photos of a man in pink silk tuxedo and his pink shopping cart shot in different locations all around the world.

Biography

Manit was born in Bangkok and graduated from Srinakharinwirot University. After he graduated, he started to work as a photographer for Bureau Bangkok. In 2007 he won the Higashikawa Prize from photo fiesta in Hokkaido japan.[1]

He also has worked in film industry as a producer and cinematographer of Citizen Juling (2008), Shakespeare Must Die (2012) and Censor Must Die (2014)[2]

Work

In 1982 Manit had his first exhibition in a group exhibition called "5 View Points" in Bhirasri Modern Art Institute, Bangkok. His first solo exhibition was "Artists in Back & White" in 1990 at Alliance Francaise, Bangkok. In 1985 he had his first international group exhibition "The 4 th Asian Painting" in Brunai. He got his first solo international exhibition "Phantom Parody" in Singapore and "Bangkok in Pink" in Japan in 2002.[1]

Pink Man

In 1997 he created the Pink Man collection to convey his attitude towards consumerism in Thailand and all around the world. The first collection was called Pink Man Begins, comprising photos of a man in pink silk tuxedo (performed by Sompong Thawee) and his pink shopping cart in La-Lai-Sup market, Bangkok.

According to Manit, "Pink Man is my upset and alienated feeling towards the concept of consumerism which has been accepted simply and without consideration by Thai society. I feel that this system has enslaved us without our realization. Moreover, we are being forced to act in the same way; there is a move towards uniformity. Pink Man is wandering quietly and smilelessly, like a robot".[1]

After that in 1998 he made the secondary set called Pink Man on Tour which took place in many of tourist location in Thailand to show disagreement to the government's campaign called "Amazing Thailand". In 2000 he published Pink Man on European Tour" photo set; in 2001 he made photo set called Horror in Pink showing photos of the pink man edited into historical photo of the 1976 Thammasat University Massacre to remind people of that event again and not forget it. In 2003 he created the sets call Pink Man in Venice, Hungry Ghost and Pink Man in Paradise. He published La Vie En Pink in 2004, Pink, White & Blue in 2005, Beijing pink in 2006 and made a model product from the Pink Man character as "Pink Man - The Icon of Consumerism" during 2007 – 2008.[3]

In 2006 he also opened a gallery called Kathmandu Photo Gallery in Pan Road, Silom, Bangkok. This gallery works not only as his own gallery but also as a place for many artists to exhibit their works.[4]

Political work

In October 2007 Manit Sriwanichpoom and Vasan Sitthiket together founded a political party called "Silapin Party", to criticize the policy of the Thai Rak Thai Party.[5] Manit worked as Deputy Chief of Party, but later he quit the party on 15 November 2007. The party was disbanded in 2009.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Manit Sriwanichpoom Biography. (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2018, [http://www.rama9art.org/manit_s/biograph.html]
  2. ↑ Manit Sriwanichpoom Biography (n.d.).Retrieved March 30, 2018, [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3121105/]
  3. ↑ Pink Man collection. (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2018, [http://www.rama9art.org/manit_s/pink1.html]
  4. ↑ Kathmandu Photo Gallery Info (n.d.). Retrieved March 16, 2018, [http://www.kathmanduphotobkk.com]
  5. ↑ Silapin Party register announce document (25 December 2007).Retrieved March 30, 2018, [http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2550/E/202/44.PDF]
  6. ↑ Silapin Party disband document (23 April 2009).Retrieved March 30, 2018, [http://www.ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/DATA/PDF/2552/D/046/289.PDF]
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