Signs

• Photographer
  Akkara Naktamna, Thailand
• Studio
  akkaranaktamna.com

Nightmarish, primeval and strong images captured with beauty and precision. For fans
of horror sci-fi, the apocalypse and other mysteries of the Intelligent Universe, Akkara
Naktamna’s simple but eye-opening series ‘Signs’ is likely to confirm their growing
sense of an organic doomsday conspiracy.

My experience in street photography made me sensitive to phenomena and changes
around us. I often encounter weird, even eerie, environmental elements, such as
various plants that, gorged on the city’s pollution, burst into gigantic mutant creepers,
steadily devouring everything around them. They seem to be biding their time to
wreak vengeance upon nature-destroying man. Many things we meet in daily life
appear inert and lifeless and so are overlooked. Closer scrutiny reveals that they’re
furtively signaling each other, emitting unfathomable messages, as in some scene
from a horror sci-fi doomsday movie, the kind that always end in tragedy.

Artist photographer based in Bangkok, Thailand.