Tanat Chayaphattharitthee

Tanat Chayaphattharithee, a photographer , has the highest education in the Master Degree of Cultural Study from the Institute of Language and Culture of Asia, Mahidol University in 2011. Firstly, he had the interest in working as a documentary photographer; therefore, he started to study about photography by himself since 2012. After that, he had chance to participate one month training about black and white film photography from Phra Nakhon Polytechnic College. In 2013, he was selected to attend the Street Photography Workshop with Mr. Vinai Dithajohn who is a news and documentary photographer, and street photography workshop set by Black and White Photography Thai Organization with Mr. Roengrit Kongmuang and Mr. Piyavit Thongsa-Ard who are both documentary photographers. Then, he had coordinated with his photographer friends named Sideway#2 to create the event called Snatchers. In 2014, he was rewarded the first runner-up from Document Photography Contest given by National Geographic Magazine in Thai Edition in the name of Photography Contest 2014 about 10 photos for narration Season 4. In 2015, he was selected to join Angkor Photo Festival & Workshop at Siam Riap in Cambodia. And in 2016, he had his own journal published on National Geographic Magazine in Thai Edition about the topic of "Why Do We Love Our Pets So Much". Presently, he works as a freelance photographer of National Geographic Magazine, Thai Edition, and a researcher at National Discovery Museum Institute.