Bangkok Boys Town............

"Bangkok Boys Town" - Chris Coles

Thai Rentboy Silom/Surawong Bangkok Night...............

"Thai Rentboy Silom/Surwong Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles

Thaniya Plaza..............

"Thaniya Plaza" - Chris Coles

Bangkok Boys Town...........

"Bangkok Boys Town" - Chris Coles

French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand Boys Town Bangkok

"French Minister of Culture Frédéric Mitterrand Boys Town Bangkok" - Chris Coles

Rent Boy in the BangkokNight

"Rent Boy in the Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles

His customers come from all over Asia and all over the world, wandering around Bangkok's gay sex district along Surawong and Silom, looking for some night-time action.  Some are handsome, some not handsome, some slim, some fat, some old, some pretty young.....high income and low income, good job, not-so-good job, sane, normal to dysfunctional and fucked up......

Rent Boy Surawong/Silom

"Rent Boy Surawong/Silom" - Chris Coles

A Khmer-Thai from Surin, he's been a Rent Boy in the Bangkok Night for five years....working the Surawong/Silom area in and around Boys Town.....hard gritty action with guys from mostly Europe, Australia and North America......enough money to pay his rent, food, taxis and some leftover to send his Mom and Dad on the hardscrable farm near Surin.....

Gay Tourist in the Bangkok Night

"Gay Tourist in the Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles

The gay scene in Bangkok is large and diverse, both paid and free....hi-level and lo-level....Asians of all kinds, Europeans, Australians, Americans, Africans, Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, Christians, Atheists.....men and women.....there are no limits and no controls........

Love at First Sight in the Hot Bangkok Night

"Love at First Sight in the Hot Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles

A chance encounter in the hot Bangkok Night...........drinking and partying in the Silom/Surawong district....hours of passion in a short-time hotel.....it's love at first sight.............

Swedish Guy in the Bangkok Night

"Swedish Guy in the Bangkok Night" - Chris Coles

Cruising Silom/Surawong Boys Town, looking for action in the hot Bangkok Night....Sweden is so far away, minus 20 Celsius, organized, policed, regulated and rational.....in the Bangkok Night, he feels so free....

Thaniya Plaza Bangkok

Thaniya Plaza Bangkok - Chris Coles

Thaniya Plaza, a vertical array of clubs, KTV's, bars and cozy hangouts, all with colorful signs, for the thousands of Japanese business guys in Bangkok to party, hang out and leave their dough behind.............

From a series of 80cm x 100cm acrylic on canvas paintings I am doing for an upcoming show in Bangkok this coming October.......

Guy from Iran in the Bangkok Night

Guy from Iran in the Bangkok Night - Chris Coles

The young guy from Iran is wandering around the Bangkok Night for the very first time, looking to do all the things he can't do back in Iran......Silom, Surawong, Boys Town....hundreds of gay bars, rent boys, men from all over the world.....

Bangkok Boys Town

"Bangkok Boys Town" - Chris Coles (100 x 80cm acrylic on canvas 2012)

Just off Surawong, near Patpong and Silom, in the soi called Bangkok Boys Town, swarms of gay guys from every country on earth mix and mingle with young Thai men, too old to really be boys but called boys nonetheless, everyone ready to rock and roll.

From a series of 100cm x 80cm acrylic on canvas paintings I am doing of the Bangkok Night for my next show.......

Michael Jackson in Bangkok

Michael Jackson Bangkok Boys Town - Chris Coles

.....lost in life, lost in Bangkok, wandering through the dark shadows of forgotten hopes and dreams, what previous life led to this one........................