บุคคลในภาพถ่าย / The People in the Picture

The People in the Picture is a documentary film project by an Australian producer in collaboration with a Thai Director and researchers.

The People in the Picture will focus on a famous photograph, taken by Neal Ulevich, at Thammasat University in Bangkok, on 6 October 1976.  On that day, civilian vigilantes attacked university students who had gathered to protest against an imminent military coup.

Ulevich, an Associated Press photographer, won a Pulitzer prize in 1977 for his series of photos of the 6 October incident. Since then this powerful image has become famous and has been incorporated into various artworks in Thailand and abroad.

Despite its fame, nothing is publicly known about any of the people in the photograph, not even their names. The researchers for The People in the Picture would like to make contact with any person depicted in this image, to hear their memories of the incident.

Through the accounts of these living witnesses, archival material and other research, The People in the Picture will explore the interaction between social changes and individual memories.

The producers are aware that the 6 October incident is still a sensitive subject in Thailand and have no wish to offend the Thai people or their government. The People in the Picture is not concerned with Thai politics. Whatever information the film presents about the events of the 6 October will be factual and non-partisan.