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 open every 1-2 months
Cinema shows one movie per week, with free popcorn
Library is open to the public
Workshops
– Current exhibition –
My old home / praying for peace
Yawng Htang
– past exhibitions –
at our own gallery
Nomads No More
Taylor Weidman
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
RESIDENCY
LIBRARY / SHOWCASES
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, workshops and our rotating showcase at Mr. Yue, a popular bar and coffee shop in Laiza.
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.
Example of books from our library
Birth Pangs of a nation : Shahidul Alam
Questions without Answers : VII photo Agency
