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Early morning

In the hush of early morning, a young monk pauses beside a simmering pot as dawn light filters through the trees. The quiet exchange between monk and villager evokes a gentle rhythm of daily giving, where warmth, faith, and simplicity briefly meet on a mist-lined path.

Awards

Black & White Photo Contest

2026

Nominee

Street

Non Professional

Early morning

In the hush of early morning, a young monk pauses beside a simmering pot as dawn light filters through the trees. The quiet exchange between monk and villager evokes a gentle rhythm of daily giving, where warmth, faith, and simplicity briefly meet on a mist-lined path.

About Artist

Yothin Kanokbanpot

Yothin Kanokbanphot is a Thai visual artist working primarily with oil painting, photography, and contemplative visual practice. His work explores the fragile relationship between stillness and instability, often reflecting on emotional movement, uncertainty, silence, labor, and spiritual awareness within contemporary life. Through restrained imagery and subtle psychological tension, Yothin examines how inner states are shaped by external structures — urban development, routine, memory, displacement, and spiritual rituals. His paintings frequently emerge through a slow and meditative process, where forms are gradually constructed over time rather than immediately resolved. For him, the technical outcome is secondary to the act of remaining present throughout the process itself. Alongside painting, photography functions as an extension of observation in his practice. His black-and-white photographs capture moments where contrasting realities coexist: construction machinery rising above the city skyline, monastic life unfolding quietly within natural landscapes, or temporary human gestures suspended between movement and stillness. Rather than documenting events directly, these images operate as emotional and psychological fragments connected to his broader artistic language. Yothin’s practice is deeply informed by ideas of concentration, silence, impermanence, and awareness within uncertainty. In recent years, his work has shifted away from seeking complete control toward allowing interruption, incompletion, and emotional transition to remain visible inside the work itself. This tension between structure and openness has become central to both his visual language and working method. His works and interviews have appeared in several international art publications and catalogs, including: * Art to Hearts Project * 100 Emerging Artists of 2026 * 100 Emerging Artworks of 2025 * Artist of the Year 2025 * 101 Photography Edition Currently, Yothin continues developing a multidisciplinary practice between painting and photography, focusing on emotional presence, psychological space, and the quiet complexity of human experience.

Yothin Kanokbanpot

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Thailand

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