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February 2008

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• Personal

  Back…

  02.24.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  in 4 days’ time. Will be taking a short break from everything. See ya!

• Events, Bangladesh, Photography

  Chobi Mela V

  02.20.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Chobi Mela, one of the biggest photography festival in Asia, is back again this year. Photographers of all genres are invited to interpret the main theme of ‘Freedom’ and submissions open from 1st March to 31st May.
  Shahidul Alam, festival director:
  New forms of slavery form new forms of chains. Violence suffered in silence. Ancestral land […]

• Exhibitions, Singapore, Photography

  30th February

  02.18.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Chow Chee Yong would be presenting his 6th solo exhibition at Kay Ngee Tan Architects Gallery from 19th Feb to 15 Mar.
  Drawing influences from the surrealists, most notably Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and Op Artist MC Escher, Chow questions possibilities of subverting expectations of the experiences. These processes of questioning reality forms the catalyst of […]

• Exhibitions, Malaysia, Photography

  Cut

  02.18.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Valentine Willie Fine Art Gallery will be holding Cut: New Photography From South East Asia from 13th Feb to 1st Mar.
  This groundbreaking exhibition of emerging photography from the Southeast Asian region focuses on young artists and the range of approaches to photography coming up now. A younger generation of artists and photographers is probing the […]

• Exhibitions, Singapore, Photography

  PEEK!

  02.18.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  PEEK!
  28th Feb till 9th March
  14 photographers’ 114 works are selected for Month of Photography, Japan 2008. Here is the chance to catch the works before they are shipped to Tokyo on 12 March 08.
  14 Photographers: Chris YAP Wooi Hoe, Ken SEET, CHOW Chee Yong, WEE Kheng-Li, Deanna NG, Gwen LEE Gim Lay, CHAN Bin Kan, […]

• Documentary, Singapore, Photography

  Alan Soon

  02.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Fellow countryman, Alan Soon, is a consummate street photographer who leads a double life as a television producer. He has a collection of images, which will definitely wake the travel bug in you.

  Top to bottom, Myanmar series, © Alan Soon
  Visit his online portfolio to see more.

• Blogging

  V Day Notes

  02.14.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Hello all, apologize for the lack of activity around here for the past few days. My Internet connection at home was disrupted for some unknown reason and the service personnel could only make it down today! To top things up, my site seems to be incompatible with the school network, it was almost impossible to […]

• News, Photography

  Polaroid

  02.09.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I hope this isn’t real, I was just starting to get into polaroids. News like this makes me feel really sad. I think I will go stock up on some boxes next week before they disappear from the shops.

• China, Photography

  Liang Yue

  02.09.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  Like many contemporary Chinese photographers, Liang Yue’s work revolves around the rapid changes in contemporary Chinese society. Her Morse Code series is worth a look as it examines the social issue conceptually. The photographs in Morse Code were taken after a sand storm, which blanketed the entire city in a yellowish monotone. She stood at […]

• Personal

  Uncredited

  02.06.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Oh yes, I need say this before I leave. I was flipping through this local magazine yesterday and was pleasantly surprised to see my pictures published in an article. I shot the story for the magazine under another organization and didn’t know when it would be out, so I was very happy to see them […]

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