Can’t Stop Won’t Stop is a pictures exhibition reliving the work of the Bangkok Community Help Foundation over the previous two years, opening tomorrow at 6pm.
The exhibition will be held at Wat That Thong School in close to Ekkamai BTS Station.
Bangkok-based photographers Kevin Grafton and Nathalie Jamois documented the frontline battles of the Covid-19 pandemic – from providing help to mass testing and developing neighborhood quarantine centres, as nicely as flood and fireplace responses, campaigns to help the homeless, and community development tasks with the Bangkok Community Help Foundation over a two year period.
Can’t Stop Won’t Stop relives these events, and celebrates the five hundred volunteers who stepped as a lot as help these most in want during one of Thailand’s darkest intervals. The exhibition will show one hundred pictures selected by Kevin and Nathalie.
Nathalie Jamois, from Paris, explained the mission of the exhibition…
“Documenting for the muse just isn’t just for me, a continuity in my photographic work normally, it is also a supply of vitality, of happiness, of feeling useful and showing how at any scale, no matter one’s social situation, we may help our neighbour. In quick, make you need to join us.
“The choice of photographs are more about robust moments that touched me and Kevin by way of the beginnings and the historical past of the foundation, unimaginable situations like mass Covid testing, flooding, fires, meals aids, serving to the person and various communities.”
Kevin Grafton, from Dallas, commented on what to expect…
“I assume it’s type of a victory lap. Insane ’s a chance to indicate what happened and replicate on every thing now that the really dire stuff (Covid) is generally (hopefully) behind us. There were lots of knock-on results from Covid, particularly in Khlong Toei, like meals insecurity, mass unemployment, the lack to soundly quarantine, and so forth., issues that may hopefully by no means be repeated.
“Roughly half of the exhibition is predicated on that, and the rest on a number of the newer projects, volunteers instructing free English lessons, kid’s day occasions in underprivileged communities, constructing properties for households in Khlong Toei, supporting the homeless and aged on Ratchadamneon, the normal actions which the Foundation was really set up to do.
“We’re very grateful to Wat That Thong for permitting us to hold the exhibition of their school’s library, the Foundation built a quarantine centre within the school during the peak of Covid, and renovated the library amongst many other issues, so it absolutely is things coming full circle.“