July 2008

The Archives

Bangladesh, Documentary, Photography
Bangladesh, standing on the edge
07.30.08 | Permalink | Comment?

© Munem Wasif
Munem Wasif has received this year’s City of the Perpignan Young Reporter’s Award at Visa pour l’Image, the premier International Festival of Photojournalism. I wrote about Wasif last September here. Since then, he has worked on a number of excellent work and his name seems to be popping up everywhere.
Munem’s work is well […]
Iran, Contemporary, Photography
Mohammadreza Mirzaei
07.28.08 | Permalink | 6 Comments

A few weeks ago, I had a short email exchange with a reader on whether the blog should feature work from some countries. Iran, and other Middle Asian states were embroiled as I considered them to be Middle Eastern countries. I ruminated over it for several days and it did not feel right - how […]
Art, Singapore, Contemporary, Photography
Joel Yuen
07.22.08 | Permalink | 4 Comments

Joel recently bagged the 27th UOB Painting of the Year competition with his body of work, Anatomical Fantasies of Meat. This generated quite a big wave of debate within our little island, where many felt that a photograph should not win the competition and that they are too grisly to be considered art. Parallels […]
Personal
Home!
07.18.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

I’m back home from training. It had been a painfully long two weeks, with the lack of sleep and constant need to make sure things are moving along.
Things that happened: I flew on a Chinook, took charge of a live firing (organization can be such a pain), went walking through the jungles (picking durians and […]
Personal
Gone
07.06.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

I’d be away for the next two weeks, without access to email and the blog. I will reply to any mail or comments when I get back.
And no, I’m not going on a vacation (I wish I was). I’d be having my annual reservist training in the jungles. I’d be back two weeks later with […]
China, Contemporary, Photography
Zhu Hao
07.05.08 | Permalink | 1 Comment

TOP TO BOTTOM, © Zhu Hao
Zhu Hao’s images of the city are focused on the objects that we often walk pass unnoticed. As an acute and sensitive photographer, Zhu Hao is immersed in the so-called “intoxication evoked by the object being shot” (Jean Baudillard). With the help of photography, he has gone deeper and deeper […]
Exhibitions, Singapore, Photography
L ‘Etranger - Kar-Wai Wesley
07.02.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

TOP TO BOTTOM, (from “L ‘Etranger”)
© Kar-Wai Wesley
L’Etranger is an invitation to experience Paris as ‘l’etranger’ or in English, the foreigner; the alien; the stranger; the other…
My friend, Wesley, from Memphis West Pictures is holding an exhibition in Paris, his home for the past three years. This exhibition consists of a series of images photographed […]