Nannaphat Thiptararattanasiri (Aomster)

I sat at a table sipping a beer while Aomster finished her online meetings. She had been somewhere in my circle of friends since my early years in Bangkok, through the Ari crowd, Dudesweet events and later Dark Bar, but this was the first time we had really sat down and talked.

Aomster works as a producer and content creator without a fixed studio or office, so she chose one of her comfort zones for the portrait: Ban Pae Charan 35, a bar and restaurant she had been visiting since her university years at Thammasat. It felt like a second home, where she meets friends, chats with the auntie who runs the place and enjoys the food. The venue is also filled with antiques and playful cats, and sometimes she even slips into helping the staff when customers arrive.

I always love when friends, or even people I don't know well, allow me to enter their world. This experience with Aomster was no exception.