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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
© 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 [...]
I meant to post this sooner but it somehow got buried. Anyway do check out Xia Tio’s website for her work, Nowhere and In Between. From her artist statement: Nowhere is an ongoing project as an exploration into the transitory state of cultural identity. A reinvention of culture, values and tradition occurs as meaning is [...]
I came upon Chen Wei’s jaw-dropping images while stumbling through a forum. His images bear the cinematic quality that seems to be garnering some popularity of late. In Chamber, I enjoyed the dark humor found in the well-lit and elaborate sets. While I’m starting to get tired of this style (think Crewdson), I can’t help [...]
I visited Chua Chye Teck’s New Castle exhibition at The Substation after school yesterday. I really wanted to visit after I saw the emailer a few days back. Chye Teck’s work has always resonated with something in me and New Castle was the first time that I got to see his prints. TOP TO BOTTOM, [...]
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 [...]
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 were [...]
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 [...]
