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Talat Noi

Talat Noi after dark

Engine parts by day, something else entirely by night. Notes from the alleys behind the river.

28 August 2026

Person in black streetwear standing in a narrow Talat Noi alley at night

Talat Noi is built out of alleys too narrow for a car and too full to walk quickly through. Engine parts stacked to the ceiling, a shrine, a coffee place that opened last month, a dog asleep across the whole path.

It is one of the few parts of the city where the light is genuinely good at night — single bulbs, shutters, reflections off wet concrete. Most of what we shoot ends up here.

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