Life and Land

Life and Land

Invisible Flock and Lazy Man Coffee were awarded the Wellcome Trust Photography Prize lived experience commission for 2025, culminating in exhibitions in 2026/27 in the UK and Thailand.

Using analogue photography, and local plants that grow on Pgak’yau land as bio-developers we will experiment with different photographic methods to express how climate change is directly and indirectly affecting the health of the community over time.

Current Exhibitions

27, 28 March - Ban Nong Tao Cultural Centre 
27 July - 9 August - Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre (BACC) 
10 - 24 August - La Lanta Fine Art

Mediums

Analogue Photography

Film

Bio-developers

Partners and Exhibitions

Wellcome Trust

Warin Lab Nomad

Bangkok Art and Cultural Centre

La Lanta Fine Art

Tree in a field as part of tradtional burn for rotational farming.

A controlled burn to prepare the soil for planting as part of the Pgak'yau rotational farming process

Pgak'yau Farmers sitting in the regrowth of the same field 8 months later

Using the materials of the land to develop new images we will bring the act of image creation into direct dialogue with its own site, following the Pgak'yau (Karen) philosophy that  “Everyone has wind, air, fire, soil, rocks, sand, stars, in their body. We are part of those elements.”
Climate and environmental change is directly impacting the health of the communities in Northern Thailand in multi faceted ways including increased heat and drought, erratic rainfall, air pollution and biodiversity loss. Our project seeks to capture these impacts from the communities perspective, as well as the many local initiatives, to mitigate and adapt to the climate and health challenges active within the community.

Related Publications

The link between mental health and ecosystem health in Indigenous farming communities

Stories of Solastagia Book

Land Body Ecologies Podcast