Manit Sriwanichpoom’s unique brand of Action Photography as dramatized by Pink Man has made him an international star. The man dressed up in pink silk tuxedo and often with a pink supermarket trolley as an accessory is played by Mani’s friend Sompong Thawee, a poet. In this indictment against crass consumerism and extreme capitalism, Pink Man roamed the streets of Bangkok like a Hungry Ghost (seven images). Pink Man, created in 1997, “is my upset and alienated feeling towards the concept of consumerism which has been accepted simply and without consideration by Thai society. I feel that this system has enslaved us without our realization,” says Manit. Artist, social activist, writer, photographer, producer, cinematographer, gallerist, Manit Sriwanichpoom explores various spectrums in his art. Apart from a bookshop, Kathmandu Photo Gallery (2006), he set up with his filmmaker wife Ing K, he founded a political party, Silapin, with fellow activist Vasan Sitthiket in October 2007 but disbanded it in 2009. He also boasted of a 48-seat cinema, Cinema Oasis, with a five-metre screen, in Bangkok. After graduating with a BFA from the Srinakharinwirot University in Bangkok (1984), he worked as a photographer for Bureau Bangkok. In 2007, he was awarded the Higashikawa Prize in Hokkaido, Japan, and the Chevalier de l’ordre des Arts et des Lettres by France in 2014. He took part in the 2009 Asia-Pacific Triennial in Brisbane and also in Thailand’s first pavilion in the Venice Biennale, apart from showing in the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Sao Paulo Biennale and Photoquai Paris (2007). The Singapore Art Museum accorded him a mid-career survey called Phenomena & Prophecies in 2010.