Ambassadors Profile

Toh Virunan Chiddaycha

Virunan Chiddaycha was born and raised in Bangkok. He got his BA from Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University. In 2009, he went to Paris to get his Master Degree in photography at SPEOS Photographic Institute. His passion for photography kept him in the region for another 4 years whilst he explored fine art photography, publishing and commercial photography before moving back to his hometown.

Virunan is a commercial portrait and fine art photographer who ‘s particularly interested in the way society is organised can create both the root causes of conflict, also general being of humanity and moral in the society. He counts photography icons Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton , Sally Man ,Saul Leiter and Diane Arbus as major influences. His latest achievement was to pick up Silver and Bronze Lions at the Cannes Lions 2016 and 2017 for his work in collaboration with the renowned TBWA Thailand for McDonald’s “Loving the night” print campaign.

Virunan Chiddaycha was born and raised in Bangkok. He got his BA from Faculty of Communication Arts, Chulalongkorn University. In 2009, he went to Paris to get his Master Degree in photography at SPEOS Photographic Institute. His passion for photography kept him in the region for another 4 years whilst he explored fine art photography, publishing and commercial photography before moving back to his hometown. Virunan is a commercial portrait and fine art photographer who ‘s particularly interested in the way society is organised can create both the root causes of conflict, also general being of humanity and moral in the society. He counts photography icons Richard Avedon, Helmut Newton , Sally Man ,Saul Leiter and Diane Arbus as major influences. His latest achievement was to pick up Silver and Bronze Lions at the Cannes Lions 2016 and 2017 for his work in collaboration with the renowned TBWA Thailand for McDonald’s “Loving the night” print campaign.