Warun Siriprachai, aka BearLy
Being a film director is her childhood dream. She’s interested in art and drawing. However, she couldn’t fulfill her dream and because her family was bankrupt. She didn’t study in the faculty that she loved, but she tried her best and got into the faculty of financial administration. She learnt so hard in order to help her family from the bankruptcy. Her life was fallen that she didn’t have any money to buy food. The bankruptcy taught her many lessons especially the unprivileged and the world between richness and poorness.
After she graduated, she joined the advertising agency and had high progress. Her financial status became better; however, her mental health became worse. She had a depressive disorder because she worked over her limit. So, she started to make herself relax by shoot some photos. Even though she started photo shooting later than other people and she didn’t have any background in communication arts, she learnt by herself from the movie and searched from the internet. She enjoyed shooting street photos, and was invited to be a part “Street Photo Thailand” group. (She has already resigned from the group.)
Due to COVID-19, she did a project about shooting Bangkok during the lockdown situation. The photos of Bangkok look like the abandoned city. She posted them in her social media platform, and became virality. Many publicities shared her content and the audiences around Thailand has learnt that Thai government cannot solve this situation. At this point, she’s aware that shooting photo is another way to tell the truth and help the society. She has passion to make a better society via her photos, so she started to do a personal project and become a journalist. She believes that a journalist can bring her to the places where no one can and bring the truth to the society and make a better world.