Kirk Thorsteinson is a Canadian expat residing in Bangkok, having lived in Vietnam, Singapore, and Jakarta. He has maintained a passion for photography since childhood.

Mr, Thorsteinson is an avid collector and user of small, medium, and large format cameras and lenses from the 1890’s through to the 1980’s, as well as enlargers and enlarging lenses. He has been fortunate enough to be able to establish a rather respectably sized collection of vintage photography, darkroom equipment, sundaries, magazines, and technical literature that he maintains as a private museum in Bangkok.

Mr. Thorsteinson's photographic interest is the exploration of past formulary, equipment and techniques for monochrome film processing and traditional black and white print production. His particular interest is decisive moment street portraiture.

Although, principally a collector, Mr. Thorsteinson’s amateur photography has focused on capturing quintessential moments of life in rural and urban Asian communities using film cameras since 1995. To see a selection of images produced by a few cameras from his collection, please see

www.flickr.com/photos/kirk_thorsteinson/

The information on the site is free to copy, download, and use. It is hoped that the work can be developed further by other people. If you choose to use the research or images, please reference the source with a link back to this site.

If you are conducting research, please feel free to contact him at cameras_kirk_thor@yahoo.com for information requests or to dialogue about photography topics. He will be happy to check items and literature in his collection and post written responses, which you can use as you wish.