Trace is an independent art space in Phra Nakhon, Bangkok, with a gallery and a photobook library.
The programme covers exhibitions, screenings, workshops, and conversations, with a focus on work that asks something of the people who encounter it, and on the cross-cultural dialogue between Southeast Asia and the world.
As much as the finished work, Trace is interested in what artists leave behind: the process, the iterations, the errors that led somewhere unexpected.
Born in Connecticut in 1953, Jim Goldberg’s innovative and multidisciplinary approach to documentary makes him a landmark photographer and social practitioner of our times. His work often examines the lives of neglected, ignored, or otherwise outside-the-mainstream populations. Through long-term, in-depth collaborations, his work investigates the nature of universal myths about class, power, and happiness.
Goldberg has been working with experimental storytelling for over 40 years, and his major projects and books include Rich and Poor (1977–85), Raised by Wolves (1985–95), Nursing Home (1986), Coming and Going (1996–present), Open See (2003–9), The Last Son (2016), Ruby Every Fall (2016), Candy (2013–17), Darrell & Patricia (2018), Gene (2018), Fingerprint (2021), Another Life (2022), and Coming and Going (2023).
Goldberg’s work is in numerous private and public collections, including New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Mark Power was born in the UK in 1959. He studied painting (1978–81) but turned to photography soon afterwards, working on editorial and charity commissions for the next decade. His meticulously crafted images, usually made with large-format cameras, have earned him a reputation as one of the forerunners of British photography.
In a career spanning 40 years, he has published 14 books: The Shipping Forecast (1996); Superstructure (2000); The Treasury Project (2002); 26 Different Endings (2007); The Sound of Two Songs (2010); Mass (2013); Die Mauer ist Weg! (2014); Destroying the Laboratory for the Sake of the Experiment (2016); Icebreaker (2018); and Good Morning, America, Volumes One (2018), Two (2019), Three (2020) and Four (2023).
He joined Magnum as a nominee in 2002, becoming a full member in 2007.
