ABOUT
Realfeatures provides photography and film services in Bangkok, Thailand.
Bangkok details | cedric@realfeatures.com | +66(0)818 2797 56
Heading Realfeatures is Cedric Arnold.
Based in Asia for over 20 years, he specialises in Portraits, documentary work and short films
Cedric has photographed royals, actors and politicians in the studio and on location.
He has over 15 years experience organising shoots in the region, with his vast network of highly professional, lighting crews, sound crews, logistics, talents, producers…
He is equally at ease working alone in remote areas or with a team of creatives and a lighting crew, and is a Fluent French, English and Thai speaker.
His short films and personal work are regularly on show in museums.
Commercial clients : Samsung, Canon, Random House, Toyota, Penguin Books, Rotary International, The United Nations, L’Oreal, Sofitel, McCann Erickson,
Lafarge, Cartier, Thai Airways, National Geographic Channel, McAfee.
Editorial Clients : Sunday Times Magazine, Le Monde, Time Magazine, Geo, Newsweek, Washington Post, Monocle, Travel & Leisure, Conde Nast Traveller,
GQ, Marie Claire, Bon Appetit, , Wall Street Journal, Stern, Financial Times, New York Times, IO Donna, Neon, Bloomberg Markets.
For information on Cedric’s personal work, exhibitions and print sales, please click here
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
National Gallery, Bangkok | Trance / Figuration – July 1st to Aug 22, 2022
Caxia Forum, Barcelona | May 18, 2022 to Aug 28 2022
Photo London, Somerset House, London | May 12-15th 2022
Caxia Forum, Madrid | Dec 3, 2021 to Apr 15 2022
Host BKK, Bangkok | Not T(here), Nov 2021
Espace Lympia, Nice | June 26, 2021 to Oct 31st 2021
Musée Jean-Claude Boulard – Carré Plantagenêt, Le Mans | Dec 18, 2020 to June 6, 2021
Baan Leaw Lea, Bangkok | Fragments II (Apopheniac) Dec 11-21 2020
Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow | March 2 to Sept 27, 2020
Pomp, Bangkok | Human Error – Feb 2020
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts | Sept 27 2019 – Feb 20 2020
Design Museum, Ghent | ‘A Wild Thing’ May 19 2017 – May 2021
El Museo Cultural, Santa Fe | Currents New Media, | June 7-23 2019
Kyoto University / CSEAS, Kyoto | ‘Yantra’ – Dec 2018
Bangkok Biennial / Bangkok | ‘Curated Memories’ – Sept 6-27 2018
Natural History Museum, Los Angeles |‘Tattoos’ Nov 19 2017 – Apr 15 2018
Design Museum | Ghent ‘A Wild Thing’ May 19 2017 – May 2018
Field Museum | Chicago ‘Tattoo’ Oct 17, 2016 – Sept 4, 2017
Tropen Museum, Amsterdam | ‘Body Art II’, March 2017 – Dec 2018
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto | ‘Tattoos’ April to Sept 2016
MAS | Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp | ‘Body Art’ Feb 16 – April 17 2016
Museum of Folk Art, Santa Fe | ‘Sacred Realm’ Feb 28, 2016 to March 19, 2017
Olympia, London | Art 16 May 19-22, 2016
Grand Palais, Paris | Art Paris March 31st – April 3rd 2016
London Art Fair | Jan 16-20 2016
Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris | ‘Theatre of the Untold’ Nov 6-22nd 2015
Tropen Museum, Amsterdam | ‘Body Art’, March 20th | August 20th 2015
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris | ‘Tatoueurs, tatoués’, May 6th 2014 | Oct 18th 2015
Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris | ‘Yantra: The Sacred ink’ May-Jun 2014
Galerie Olivier Waltman, London Art Fair, Jan 2014
Festival Photo Saint-Germain-des-Prés Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris | Nov 2013
Le Magasin de Jouets, Arles | ‘Sacred Ink’ July – Sept 2013
SNAP Photo Festival, Orlando | ‘Sacred Ink’ May 2013
Yangon Photo Festival, Yangon | ‘Yangon Awakening’ Feb 2013
Farmani Gallery, Bangkok | ‘Sacred Ink’ Nov 2012 – Jan 2013
Brunei Gallery London – SOAS | ‘Sacred Ink, The Tattoo Master’ Oct Dec 2012
Chulalongkorn University Art Centre Bangkok | ‘Sacred Ink’ May 2011
“Instants Tannes” at Alliance Francaise de Bangkok | May 2009
“Shadowing Light” at Amantee Gallery, Bangkok | May 2006
“Takraw” Shown to Olympic Committee at Paris’s town hall, L’Hotel de Ville| 2005
“Takraw” Bangkok month of photography II at Gallery F Stop| June 2004
For more information on the ‘Yantra: The Sacred Ink’ exhibition please click here
Publications (selection)
‘Tatoueurs, tatoués’, Musée du Quai Branly / Actes Sud
Geo, France (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
IO Donna (Yangon Awakening)
Die Nacht (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
Slate / Behold blog (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
January Art Magazine (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
Newsweek International (cover) (Yangon Awakening)
Newsweek Japan / Picture Power (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
South China Morning Post (Yangon Awakening)
The Sunday Times Magazine / Spectrum (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
Photoworks (Yantra: The Sacred Ink)
FILMS
‘Yantra: The Sacred Ink’ , is a documentary short on Thailand’s talismanic tattoo tradition – see it at:
Field Museum | Chicago Oct 17, 2016 – April 30, 2017
Tropen Museum, Amsterdam | March 2017
Museum of Folk Art, Santa Fe | Feb 28, 2016 to March 19, 2017
Royal Ontario Museum, Ontario | April to Sept 2016
Past screenings:
MAS | Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp | Feb 16 – April 17 2016
Tropen Museum, Amsterdam | March 20th – August 20th 2015
Musée du Quai Branly, Paris | May 6th 2014 – Oct 18th 2015
Galerie Olivier Waltman, Paris | May-Jun 2014
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
British Library Collections
SOAS, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
ACADEMIC
Cedric has regularly lectured in universities and art centres for over 10 years, setting up workshops
on documentary, portrait, studio and analogue black and white photography.
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
Galerie Olivier Waltman – Paris