CREATIVE SPACE

Studio Sakse

The Sakse gallery & photo book library in Chiang Mai.

The gallery, cinema and library give vital exposure to world class media for the local people. It also functions as a training space for developing future Kachin curators with half of the exhibitions being curated by our alumni & mentees.

Exhibitions new every 2 months

Cinema will shows one movie per week, with free popcorn

Library is open to the public + book showcases

Workshops Few times a year

Special Events

The studio is available for a variety of rental uses. Full details

CINEMA

- Until June 17th, Sakse will be hosting casual friends film nights on fridays -

- Upcoming screenings -

Screenings will start around May '22

Midi Z in focus

Midi Z shoots documentary & fiction features in his native Shan State / northen Burma & Taiwan. His lastest of eight feature films, Nina Wu, premiered at the Cannes film festival.

About midi Z

Nina Wu

Fiction / Taiwan

The road to Mandalay

Fiction / Burma

City of Jade

Documentary / Burma

14 apples

Fiction / Burma

- past exhibitions -

at our own gallery

My old Home/ Praying for Peace

Yawng Htang

Siphandon

Suthep Kritsanavarin

Border / Korea

Yusuke Hishida

Let My Voice Be Heard

Kachin IDP's

at other venues

Burma Photo Showcase

Month of Photography - Denver

The People's war

Hkun Lat

The Kachinland school of Arts & Sciences

Life on the Front Line

Hkun Li

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Thailand

Let My Voice Be Heard

Kachin IDP's

Je Yang IDP camp

Nomads No More

Taylor Weidman

LIBRARY / SHOWCASES

At our Laiza center, children would run to look at books on their school breaks

Kachin Youth discovering photography books at our Laiza center, located on the second floor of the Kachin National Library

Students of Chiang Mai University discovering photography books at one of Sakse's showcase

Sakse's books showcased at the School of Social Sciences in Myitkyina, Kachinland

General Gam Shawang of the KIO looking at one of our books at Sakse center in Laiza

Thai children discovering our books at our new gallery in Chiang Mai

Photo books are an essential part of Sakse’s mission to create a microcosm of media. We make sure our books are widely seen by bringing them out of the gallery and into other public spaces, such as refugee camps and workshops.

The Sakse library holds over 300 hardback photo monographs. In addition to the physical library in Laiza, we have organized many photo book showcases & events at other spaces & events in Myitkyina & Yangon. Part of our collection was also donated to a photo gallery in Yangon.

Publishers, please donate to our growing library and learn more about how you can support Sakse in Kachin.