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Bangkok: Urban Chaos from Chinatown to Siam Square

Chinese signs and concrete structures in Bangkok’s streets

Orange hues, unbearable heat, chaos on Chinatown’s Yaowarat Road, gasping for air, sipping salty Pocari Sweat from a 7-Eleven, flying trains above neon signs, and the endless chorus of Tuk-Tuks. It’s February in Bangkok.

Photographs from Siam Square (Pathum Wan) & Yaowarat Road, Bangkok.

Photographed by Alexandra van der Essen

Students in uniforms walk through Siam Square, Bangkok, beneath the city's elevated Skytrain tracks, surrounded by modernist concrete structures.
A chaotic street scene in Bangkok’s Chinatown, where motorbikes and cars navigate through a dense maze of red and gold Chinese signage.
Vendors sell fresh fruits at a street market in Chinatown, Bangkok, with neon signs and old commercial buildings lining the road.
The lively streets of Bangkok’s Chinatown, filled with cars, motorbikes, and tuk-tuks, under a canopy of glowing Chinese neon signs.
A traditional Thai tuk-tuk speeds past a weathered modernist concrete building in Bangkok, showcasing the city’s mix of old and new.
Schoolgirls walk along a pedestrian area in Bangkok’s Siam Square, framed by towering brutalist concrete supports of the Skytrain.

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