Bangkok is a city of two skins. One is exposed, visible to all, a mosaic of colours, textures, and organic compositions that form the city’s living surface. The other is hidden, intimate, belonging to those who inhabit it. This project explores that duality, the tension between what the city shows and what it conceals.

Through close up details of Bangkok’s streets, walls, plastics, and neon reflections, the work uncovers the city’s outer layer, an accidental creation shaped by countless daily gestures. In contrast, the portraits of women reveal the private surface beneath. When placed side by side, these two worlds reflect each other, the city’s skin turned outward, the human skin held inward, together forming a single visual pulse.

This project had to take the form of a book. Only through the turning of pages can the dialogue between landscape and body unfold gradually, allowing each image to echo the next. The sequence creates rhythm and contrast, mirroring the city’s alternating pace between chaos and stillness. Above all, colour gives life to this dialogue: vivid, saturated, and unrestrained. It captures Bangkok’s essence, its heat, its energy, its sensual excess, and transforms it into a portrait of the city as skin itself.