Photography Creation of "Wat Lanna" by Pinhole Camera and Cyanotype

Abstract

The creation of photography set of "Wat Lanna (Lanna Temples)" is the creation of photographic works using alternative processes, including Pinhole Process and Cyanotype Process which is one of the monochrome processes in the past. The creation of work is expressed through the contours of the religious architecture in Lanna culture to reflect faith and beliefs in Buddhism of Lanna people in the past that are expressed through the construction of temples according to Lanka Wong Approach. This project aims to shoe the beauty of photographic art through an alternative photography process that were popular in the past. Even though its popularity has declined in the modern era in which photographic technology is rapidly evolving. These ancient processes are still capable of creating aesthetic beauty and communicating through "photographs," which is not inferior to the photograph techniques at present, like the ancient religious places that remain today, which also serve as the religious spiritual anchor for Chiang Mai people which was the centre of the Lanna Kingdom and exhibit Lanna architectural beauty which also does not degenerate over the time but becomes more valuable by their identity. This series of work has been created by collecting information related to temples in Lanna culture, and have been influenced by Takashi Homma’s (Takashi 2021, Online), Craig Barber’s  (Barber 2021, Online) and Henry Peter Bosse's works (Bosse 2021, Online). The works by aforementioned artists are analyzed to determine the composition and techniques for bringing the 2 photographic alternative processes to work together since both processes are limited in creativity, unlike modern photography that are less restrictive, in order to create the results that have creativity.

The results from the creation have shown that the implementation of the combination of both alternative photography processes in Lanna architectural photography of religious places less to satisfying monochrome photographs according to the concept. The expectations are that the audience will get to know both aesthetics of photographic art and will learn about the alternative processes in photography while having the awareness of the uniqueness of Buddhism in Lanna that is expressed through the architecture.