Chosen Photo For Exhibition

 The photo shows a monk sat on a cushion during a meditation, he is wearing a white blanket over his head which is quite different since the other monks were wearing orange blankets. The lighting it not bright. This made the white of the blanket appear to be darker with shadows that draw your attention.

I chose this photo for the exhibition because it is from the meditation shoot were I joined in, I enjoyed it a lot so I wanted to show how relaxing it is and thought that the photo of the monk sat on his cushions would show this. This is also what the Buddhist monks are well known for. 

The photograph to the right is of the head monk while he is chanting this like the previous photo is also from the meditation shoot. The monk has his hands together while chanting to himself, he is actually in front of the alter which you don't see except for the flowers. 

I chose this photo to be in my degree show  because I wanted to show the head monk while he was chanting. From my own experience hearing the chanting was moving and I ended up joining it can become even more relaxing when there is a large number of people joining in. I want people to see this, even though they can not hear the chanting they can still see it.

The photo on the left is of all four monks together they are sat of certificate that shows Than Thirasaks sort of promotion. The photo is not level and the monks are not in the center of the photograph. The monks all have serious looks on there faces. 

I chose to use this photo in my exhibition because the monks are the main focus when it comes to Buddhism. The monks are always learning and teaching so I thought it was perfect to have the photo of all four in the exhibition.

The photo to the right is of the bowls that are used to cleans the water that is then poured on to the tree in the garden. Your eyes are automatically drawn to the light reflection on cleanser as it is the lightest part of the photograph. The shadows are stronger in between the bowls but that is also because the colour of the table is quite dark, this makes the bowls stand out more. The bowls fill the frame of the photograph.

I chose this photo to be in the exhibition because it shows and object that I did not know about, I did not know what they were used for until after an offering to the monk they were used to cleansing the water before pouring in on to the tree.

This  photo is from the Songkrin Festival, it shows a woman pouring water into a shoot that leads to the statues of Buddha. This is to cleanse the image of Buddha for the new year. I lowered the saturation of the colour so that the shoot was not so bright also the silver cup was drawing the attention from the rest of the image. 

I chose this photo to be in the exhibition because it  shows how the Buddhist believe  that  cleansing a statue of the Buddha  will help them in the year to come.

 This photo is also from the Songkran festival, it shows a woman pouring scented water over the Buddhist statue. This is to cleans the image of Buddha for the new year. The main focus is the Buddha statue as it is darker then the rest of the image but the flowers around the neck and the damage to the back of the head do draw the attention.

I chose this photo to be in the exhibition as it is linked to the photo above and wanted to show another way to cleans the image of Buddha. It is also because I wanted to have an image of Buddha in the exhibition even though this is not an obvious image of him. 

This photo shows Than Thirasaks during the Magha Puja day, when the monks would usually walk through a village receiving rice as an offering but instead of walking through a village they were walking around the car park.Than Thirasaks stands out from the rest of the photograph because of how bright his orange robes are compared to row of people and the background. I love that he is not wearing socks outside even though it was freezing I will crop the photo so that it does not show the row of people.

I chose  this photo to be in the exhibition because I really enjoyed photographing this event, it was something completely different that I had not experienced before.

This photo is also from Magha Puja day. The photo is off all four monks while receiving the offerings. The colours draw you attention first with the warm colours that takes up most of the image. 

I chose this photo to be in the exhibition because I wanted a photo of all the monks during the ceremony but not just a staged photo but a photo of the monks being monks not chanting or meditating.

  

This photo is from the wedding blessing ceremony, it was during the cleansing part of the ceremony, this is when the family and friend of the bride and groom pour water over the couples hand to clean away their sins. The grooms hand is in focus compared to the brides which is in the background she is having water poured over her hands.

I chose this photo to be in the exhibition because I had never been been to wedding blessing that had a different ceremony. I thought that the washing away the sins of the couple to be an great way to start a marriage.

All the photos that I have selected to be in the exhibition were selected because they are ever of something that I have learned about or part of a new experience that I really enjoyed. I want to show others what I have learned and hope to get other people interested in other culture.