August 2007

The Archives

Japan, Art, Contemporary, Photography
Miwa Yanagi
08.30.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I was thinking of writing a post on Miwa Yanagi when I spotted a feauture of her in Eyemazing. Stacy Oborn from the space in between (I miss her posts!) wrote about Yanagi back in 2005.

Miwa Yanagi’s photographs are instantly captivating. The Japanese artist’s bold and fantastical imagination carves out a unique photographic language and […]
News
Portfolio Launch
08.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

After three weeks of development, I have finally launched my personal portfolio! Fully made in Actionscript 3, I employed XML to make maintenance easier. It was hard transiting to AS3 from AS1/2 but somehow I managed to get around some tight spots. It’s been weeks of sleeping at 5-6am, I think I can finally rest […]
Books, Photography
Basic Critical Theory for Photographers
08.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Recently, I have been reading Basic Critical Theory for Photographers. I think it’s an excellent resource for anyone who wants to go deeper into photography. The book summarizes several notable books on photography by Susan Sontag, Roland Barthes, John Szarkowski and Bertrand Russell, to name a few. At the end of each chapter, there are […]
Competition, Malaysia, Photography
Malaysia@50
08.29.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Malaysia@50 is a photography competition celebrating Malaysia’s 50th birthday. Coverage by Lensa Malaysia of the opening last year.
Our country marks 50 years of nationhood next year and in anticipation of that milestone, we invite Malaysians to take out their cameras to capture the Malaysian way of life. We want to show ourselves at work, […]
Southeast Asia, Photography
Project Shutter
08.29.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Project Shutter is a project under Microsoft Asia-Pacific to link photographers in the region together. Several popular forums from each country has been chosen as partners: Canon Club from Thailand, Fengniao.com and POCO from China, Forum Kamera, Fotografer.net and Kamera-Digital.com from Indonesia, PixPROs from Thailand, LensaMalaysia from Malaysia and ClubSnap from Singapore.
Designed for the budding […]
China, Art, Contemporary, Photography
Wang Qingsong
08.26.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Sherman showed some works by Wang Qingsong during his talk and I went to look for more works by him. Born in 1966, he experienced the Cultural Revolution first hand and witnessed the influx of Western culture in China. These experiences form a large part of his work. Most of his works are politically […]
Southeast Asia, Art, Malaysia, Singapore, Photography
Sherman Ong: Art, Life and Identity
08.22.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

Sherman Ong is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and educator from Malaysia, based in Singapore.
Straddling fiction and documentary, his films were exhibited in Europe, US, Brazil and Asia and have won awards in Hong Kong, Greece, Italy, Indonesia and Malaysia. He is an alumnus of the 1st Berlinale Talent Campus 2003 and has premiered works […]
Blogging
First Post
08.18.07 | Permalink | Comment?

Hello all, this is the maiden post for the blog. =)
I’ve been blogging for the past seven years and before that, relied on ftp for journal publishing back in the heydays of 28k modems. Recently, in the midst of setting up my online portfolio, it dawned on me to start a photography blog. However, faced […]