PHOTOCUBISM 
    
     A Photography Exhibition by
     M. L. Mingmongkul Sonakul

     Dates: 
     Opening Reception: April 23, 2010 
      at 6.30pm
      Exhibition dates: 24 April to 7 June 2010.

     Venue: 
    Objectifs Centre for Photography & 
     Filmmaking, 56A Arab Street, Singapore 
     199753
     Tel: +65 6293 9782
     Enquiries   info@objectifs.com.sg 
                            www.objectifs.com.sg

Opening hours: 11am - 7pm (weekdays); 12pm-6pm (viewing by appointment only)

Objectifs Centre for Photography & Filmmaking is proud to present the collection of Sonakul's series entitled Photocubism.

The exhibition of 16 photo collages records the artist's experiences and interaction with places she has visited around the world, from Bangkok to New York and Los Angeles. She uses different angles and time lapses to tell the story of her subjects.

All photo collages presented in this exhibition are printed with the Gouttelette® technology by Felix Rosenstiel's Widow & Son Ltd (established in London in 1880). The Gouttelette® print is the next stage along the evolutionary chain from the giclée,

The works are printed onto fine archival-quality cotton canvas coated with acid-free primer with the same standards of the Fine Art Trade Guild's blue wool scale, with every scan taken by museum-trained craftsmen. Sonakul has chosen this method because of its museum-standard quality and the environmental management policy of the principal supplier of print which was a recipient of The Queen's Award for Export Achievement in 1993 and 2007.

Photocubism is a travelling exhibition that showed at La Lanta Gallery in late 2009 to a sold-out show.

About the artist:

M.L. Mingmongkol Sonakul was born 1971 in Bangkok, Thailand, and received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree, majoring in Fine Art Photography, from the San Francisco Art Institute, in the U.S.A. Before returning to Thailand, M.L. Mingmongkol worked at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA), New York, and later in LosAngeles for independent film productions.

Since 2000, her name has become synonymous with the birth of Thai independent cinema, after producing Apichatpong Weerasethakul's debut feature Mysterious Object at Noon(2000), the first Thai film to receive the Hubert Bals Fund. Since then she has produced and also directed many feature films that have been critically acclaimed and box office successes. She has helped produce and advise many award winning short films such as that by Aditya Assarat and other previously unknown young new directors and crews, which have now become Thailand's and Asia's leading feature film directors and producers.

In 2001, she was the first Thai producer chosen by the French Embassyto represent Thailand in the "1 st Young Producers from Three Continents" training program, held for the first time in Nantes, France. In that same year she also wrote, directed, independently financed and later distributed her first feature film I-San Special, which was awarded the NETPAC-Fipresci Critics prize at the 2002 Singapore Film Festival. Shewas also the first Thai to be invited to participate in the Sundance Film Festival's independent filmmaker fellowship program.

As one of a very few independent filmmakers in Thailand, M.L. Mingmongkol produced and co-produced such independent film as 3 Friends (also co-directed) , One Night Husband, and The Tin Mine (executive producer) which won the Suphannahong award for Best Picture in 2005. She also co-produced the internationally successful film Alone (the long awaiting second feature film by the director of Shutter), and co-produced the pan-Asian feature Invisible Waves.