Date7th October 2025Date KnownExactDescriptionChattiya and I grew up just around the corner from one another. They were in my sister’s grade at Bossley Park High School, a year below me. In a beautiful full circle, we now live together in a share house with friends. Chattiya’s Mae Bew (mother) Krittiya radiates a warm, sunlit energy inherited by her first-born. Chattiya often returns home from visiting their family with arms full of offerings: kilos of rice, handmade dumplings from Krittiya’s favourite spot in Cabramatta, and containers of fragrant Thai curries prepared at the family restaurant first opened by Yai Na, their grandmother and the matriarch of the family. This abundant generosity is shaped by Thai tradition and Buddhist values. Food sits at the centre of family life, with cooking a shared language of love.
Suwanna was the first woman in the family to arrive in Australia from Thailand in the late 1980s, with everyone else following soon after. The family settled in Western Sydney and have remained here ever since. This is home. When Krittiya moved to Bossley Park, Yai Na lived with her daughter and helped raise the grandchildren, three generations under one roof looking out for one another. She shares a particularly close bond with Chattiya as the first-born grandchild, their birthdays just one day apart.
It felt really special to be invited into their family home and a privilege to photograph the palpable culture of tenderness and care shared between them.
- Chloë Nour, February 2026PhotographerChloë NourNotesThese photographs are part of the 2025 City Photographer project.
The people in these photos are:
- Chattiya Peace Sinsomboon
- Krittiya Sinsomboon (Mae bew [Mother] of Chattiya)
- Suwanna Pukdeekul (Yai na [Grandmother] of Chattiya)
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Image ColourColourTypeDigitalCopyrightPartial restriction. Please contact Fairfield City Heritage Services for image use.AcknowledgementChloë Nour 2025 Fairfield City Photographer. Image courtesy of Fairfield City Heritage Collection.
