West Phillips

Kuala Lumpur: Kith

Added 2025-06-28 00:57:36 +0000 UTC

Then thirty-three year old Kith is a bodybuilder and an accomplished musician and teacher. He's got the physique of a violin player, don't you think? 😏He and I have been connected via Instagram and Facebook for several years - I think we first connected around 2016 or so. We'd occasionally chat, but never too much and never really got to know each other much - until I arrived in Malaysia. In fact, my trip here was only intended to be 1-2 weeks, but because of him I extended.

We hit it off in person once we met, of course. Randomly - our first face to face was when he asked me to be his 'date' to his friend's wedding here. Awkwardly, but curiously I accepted and the rest was a whirlwind. We managed to squeeze in a little shoot after the wedding and then many times since we've shot. We've done shoots around Kuala Lumpur, as well as in other states and cities when we did a weekend road-trip away.

This series we did at the bird park in Kuala Lumpur - at a somewhat worn and aged play ground for the kiddos. We had been out and about exploring and shooting all day, but by this point we were losing sun and energy!

Kuala Lumpur, Nov 2023