An Evening at Victory Monument Circle, Bangkok
Sunday, August 7, 2011 at 1:32PM 
Victory Monument Circle is a major transportation hub in Bangkok for busses and the SkyTrain. Many people pass through the make-shift sidewalk market every day to and from their work.
There is a wet night market under the SkyTrain tracks where some small stalls are erected.
The commuters stop and buy food for dinner, like this tasty Thai dim sum, and are then lured into the other stalls for impulse items.
Biodegradable packaging for the tasty rice. As the sun sets the lights come on and the shadows grow longer.
Anything that is considered cool anywhere on earth finds its way to this corner of Bangkok and onto a card tables under the SkyTrain.
Are they real? Who knows.
A scarf or hanky, a blouse or . . .
. . . or something for the hair -- on the way home through Victory Monument Circle.
My other favorite thing about Victory Monument Circle is the Saxophone Blues Pub. The night's entertainment was roiling blues.
Reader Comments (1)
Great photos here Jeff! I especially like the first one in this post. Saw your postings earlier today and was thinking about it a bit and how you have organized your images into a coherent, sort of "mini" documentary project. I wonder if this is how you approach the photographic process in general, i.e. are you thinking of how to illustrate the overall context of your experience as you photograph or do you pull it together after the fact. I know many do. It's an issue I have been thinking a lot about lately. I have done some documentary projects in the past but my modus operendi is to shoot what ever stimulates me (usually people) without regard for explicit narrative. Maybe I am just being lazy or unwilling to "profess" a point of view but the images I strive to produce are authentic expressions of humanity and sometimes nature situated in aesthetically sophisticated arrangements...a kind of Zen approach that speaks a unique truth to each viewer and yet can be understood collectively as beautiful in ways that transcend the power of words or explicit narrative.