ENTRY DESCRIPTION
The great annual water festival, goes by many names in Southeast Asia, in Thailand it’s known as Songkran. It ushers in the start of rainy season in April, a time when after five excruciatingly dry months the sky finally opens and water pours on to the bone dry land. It’s celebrated nationwide with mass water fights and traditional Buddhist rituals. The Northern Thai city of Chiang Mai is widely known for where the water really gets flowing.

I documented Songkran from the perspective of a participant, to allow my audience to immerse themselves in the carnival atmosphere as if taking part with their own water pistol in hand. The only difference was that instead of shooting a water pistol I was shooting a camera wrapped in plastic.

AUTHOR
Lord K2 (David Sharabani) is a London born artist who is known for his photography as well as his stencil graffiti. He attended the London College Printing and then moved on to study business. Having spent a large portion of his working life trading stocks from his laptop and traveling extensively he has had the opportunity to witness how institutions and global economies truly function. This enabled him to make enough for himself to suspend work and move into art. He initially took to the streets to spray paint stencils, having learned his skills in Buenos Aires and after spending over 2 years in Latin America he continues to travel extensively to pursue his projects. He is working on a number of ongoing photography projects and is currently documenting both the Muay Thai and Sumo cultures, in Thailand and Japan respectively. He is also the author of ‘Street Art Santiago’ by Schiffer Publishing in which he documented the urban art scene in Santiago, Chile. He has two further books due for release in 2017, one of which chronicles the street art scene in Buenos Aires and the other in Tokyo. He is also the curator of the online website the Museum of Urban Art.

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