The Back Door
Behind the luxury mall, a small door stays lit for the people who make the place shine. Nobody photographs this side.
Edition of 5 + 1 AP, all sizes combined
About this image
This photograph was made in Bangkok, behind a luxury shopping mall surrounded by high-end hotels and polished façades. What interested me was not the spectacular front of the city, but its hidden service area: a backstage space for workers, deliveries and maintenance, almost invisible from the public image Bangkok projects of itself.
The yellow door, caught inside a large pink wall and crossed by colder blue light, became a small point of human scale within an architecture of separation. I added a red-pink flash to intensify the existing blue cast and create a strange gradient across the wall. The image holds two realities at once: the seductive surface of wealth and the functional, isolated space behind it. Its beauty is not decorative to me; it comes from that contradiction — a back entrance transformed into a theatrical threshold, where the city briefly reveals what it usually hides.
Made in camera, with coloured flash on location. No AI.
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Paper, certificate and edition
Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag Matt Baryta 308 g or Canson Infinity Baryta Photographique II Matt 310 g — acid-free archival papers. Each print is signed, numbered and registered with an Arttrust certificate of authenticity. The edition counts all sizes and finishes together; the price rises as the edition sells.
Floater frame
The print is mounted on 3 mm aluminium Dibond and set in a black wooden floater frame, without glass. Other frames, mounts and supports are possible on request.
Shipping and returns
Rolled print in a protective tube: free in France and Europe, €75 to the rest of the world.
Floater frame, Europe / rest of the world: 70 × 100 cm €130 / €210 · 100 × 150 cm €210 / €340 · 133 × 200 cm €380 / on quote.
Works are made to order, so they cannot be returned except if damaged or not as ordered. Read the details.
