Nick Nostitz

Nick Nostitz (born 1968) is the professional name of Nikolaus Freiherr von Nostitz - a German photographer who is a member of the Silesian Nostitz family and has lived and worked in Bangkok since 1993. Fluent in the Thai language, Nostitz is noted for specializing in what he considers to be the "lower levels" of the country's society seldom seen by casual visitors.

Nostitz used black-and-white photographs to depict the both allure and sadness connected with the Thai sex industry in his 2001 book Patpong: Bangkok's Twilight Zone (ISBN 0-9537438-2-9). In 2004 he documented the violent war of then Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra against alleged drug dealers with a series of photographs. His work has appeared in several leading European magazines, such as Stern and Der Spiegel.

He is currently producing a series of books on Thailand's political troubles in the aftermath of the 2006 coup. This started with Red vs Yellow Volume 1: Thailand's Crisis of Identity, published by White Lotus Press in 2009.[1] It was followed in 2011 by Red vs Yellow Volume 2: Thailand's Political Awakening which covers the rise of the red shirt movement in 2009 and also published by White Lotus Press.[2]

During the PDRC-Demonstrations in Bangkok 2013/2014 he was violently attacked on 25 November 2013 by the royalist mob, suffered from a hate campaign and narrowly escaped a kidnapping attempt by criminal members of the same group on 7 Mai 2014. He also received death threads and almost stopped his professional work in Bangkok after the putsch by General Prayuth on 20/22 May 2014.

Private life

On 21 December 2014 he launched a donate campaign via his Facebook page which was also publicly shared by friends,[3] saying that he was planning to go back to Germany but sliding "into a very difficult situation" because he had not been able to work in months and even today, as an example, he could not go anywhere in the south of Thailand, since in this region the PdRC has its main support. Besides, he and his wife had to wait for an adoption process for their son of 10, which had been with them since he was 7 months old: "Despite an apply for adoption almost 2 years ago, massive disappearances in the procedure had almost eaten up all my savings. ... At the moment I only have enough money for a maximum of 3 – 4 months to live in Thailand, which will probably not be enough for the most complex bureaucratic processes of adoption and settlement."

References

  1. ↑ http://www.whitelotuspress.com/bookdetail.php?id=E22631
  2. ↑ http://www.whitelotuspress.com/bookdetail.php?id=E22654
  3. ↑ https://www.facebook.com/nitnoi.ein.wenig/posts/806585036046972

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