This body of work was created during my time as Photographer in Residence with Thousand Currents, in collaboration with the Southern Peasants Federation of Thailand (SPFT), a grassroots movement of landless families who have reclaimed former palm-oil plantations to build cooperative agroecological villages. Over decades, SPFT has transformed sites of extraction into living territories rooted in collective governance, women’s leadership, and food sovereignty.
Working alongside SPFT members through portraits, audio interviews, and shared reflection, I sought to follow how political resistance lives inside everyday practices: planting rice, tending rubber trees, teaching children the history of their land, and caring for one another in the face of eviction and state violence. The work is guided by SPFT’s vision that the defense of soil, water, and community is inseparable from the right to remain—an affirmation that liberation is built slowly, in the ordinary rhythms of life.
