Collection: Glow
Location: Bangkok
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After the success of Glow, showcasing night photographs of Tokyo and Hong Kong, I decided to make it an ongoing project in order to add more cities in the collection. Next was Bangkok.
“The meticulous reprocessing of his pictures has placed Xavier Portela in the perfect position to become part of the finest tradition of the visual documentation of routine scenes and ordinary people, which began in the 19th century with painters like Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, who, not surprisingly, often worked alongside photographers to capture the fleeting impressions of city life.”
