Category Archives: Contemporary
Agan Harahap
Agan Harahap is a young Indonesian photographer with one wicked sense of humor. First mentioned earlier this year for Valentine Willie’s CUT, Harahap is back with a solo exhibition, SAFARI. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Safari”) © Agan Harahap, 2008 In this series, various animals have been anthropomorphized and placed in common situations that we may [...]
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Showcase: Zhao Renhui
In a two-part post, I would be showcasing Zhao’s winning works and a lengthy interview that I conducted with him over email. His works can be seen at the Institute of Critical Zoologists. Yaohong: Much of your work revolves around the zoological gaze and I believe that the works you submitted to the competition clearly [...]
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Zhao Renhui
Zhao Renhui is a young Singaporean photographer who recently made waves by winning the 29th UOB Painting of the Year award. This is the second consecutive year that the award has been given to a photographer. I would like to introduce some of his older works here before discussing his winning works in a later [...]
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Seung Woo Back
Frankly speaking, looking at real/faux miniature macro images proliferating everywhere has been a rather tiring experience. Nothing new is presented and one easily gets lost in the technicalities. Enter Korean photographer Seung Woo Back’s Real World series. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Real World“) © Seung Woo Back, 2004 Taken at Aiins World theme park in [...]
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The Voyage to the Ends of the World
My friend, Jovian Lim, recently graduated from the fine art program at NTU. His graduation piece, The Voyage to the Ends of the World, was one of my favorite series on exhibit. The prints were simply gorgeous to look at. It was a pity that they were taken out of context somewhat, as the series [...]
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Asada Masashi
Taking the idea of family portraits one step further, Asada Masashi cajoled his family to pose in a series of humorous photographs. In The Asada Family, Masashi transformed himself and his family members into various fictional families, which are stereotypical of the Japanese society. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“The Asada Family“) © Asada Masashi This [...]
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Darren Soh
I was waiting for the 2009 PDN’s 30 website to be released (as I do every year) but it’s extra special because my friend/occasional boss, Darren Soh, is featured this year. Darren is a commercial and editorial photographer based in Singapore. Darren made his decision to go full-time when he returned from a mission after [...]
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Eiffel Chong
Eiffel graduated from the University of East London with a MA in International Contemporary Art and Design Practice. Currently a photography lecturer at Lim Kok Wing University of Creative Technology, his works have been published and shown at many exhibitions and workshops. I met Eiffel last week at the SIPF Workshop where he showed some [...]
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SIPF Opening
© Ch’ng Yaohong One word to describe the SIPF opening today – amazing! It’s hard to see so many good works congregated in one area especially in Singapore and I was literally blown away by the quality I saw. There were so many good works on show that it’s hard for me to single out [...]
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Young Kim – Suitman