{"id":50276,"date":"2025-08-07T11:36:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50276\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T11:36:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T11:36:09","slug":"thai-photographer-pictures-the-naked-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/50276\/","title":{"rendered":"Thai photographer pictures the naked truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/life-arts\/arts\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Arts<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Sophirat Muangkum brings nudity into the country&#8217;s mainstream<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/1\/7.jpeg\" alt=\"DSC04909-ps.jpg\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">Photographer Sophirat Muangkum says she is still being challenged about her work but sees changes in the art world and by extension in Thai society. (Courtesy of 333 Gallery\u00a0and\u00a0Preecha Pattara)<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">BANGKOK &#8212; &#8220;When I started out, I never thought I would become a photographer,&#8221; says 42-year-old Thai photographer Sophirat Muangkum. &#8220;I thought of what I was doing as therapy because my job in sales and marketing was stressful, and I tried to find art to heal myself. I couldn&#8217;t paint, so I picked photography.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Arts Sophirat Muangkum brings nudity into the country&#8217;s mainstream Photographer Sophirat Muangkum says she is still being challenged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[449,458,459,64,63,460,134,15455,42542,42543,42541,13097],"class_list":["post-50276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-naked","tag-photographer","tag-pictures","tag-thai","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}