Category Archives: Malaysia
CUT 09
ABOVE, from (“Octopus Garden“)
© Agan Harahap
The theme for this year’s CUT is Figure and once again, we are treated to an insight to Southeast Asia’s photography scene.
From the press release:
Artists featured in CUT09 are on the forefront of highlighting the problematics of representation in photography. Instead of subscribing to the belief that identity is a [...]
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Flanegan Bainon
Anima, according to Jungian psychology, refers to the inner self that is in touch with the unconscious. Flanegan Bainon from Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, Malaysia had been working earnestly on his portraiture series, Anima, since last year.
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Anima“)
© Flanegan Bainon, 2008-2009
Somehow, I particularly like the subjects’ awkwardness. It’s a work in progress and [...]
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Heading North
© Ch’ng Yaohong, 2008
Time out!
Will be going up to Kuala Lumpur for a few days tomorrow. I’m attending an opening on Wednesday and generally be chilling out for the rest of the week. I’m available if anyone wants to do coffee/beer, drop me a mail!
(Sorry for the bad scan. Paid the lab to give me [...]
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 images [...]
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Cut
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 [...]
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Myanmar Uprising
Quick link: Abdul Rahman Roslan from Malaysia covered a pro-democracy protest outside the Myanmese embassy in Kuala Lumpur last month. His images can be viewed on flickr.
Free Burma
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Yee I-Lann
Yee I-Lann’s Sulu Stories series has traveled quite a fair bit around the world.
Yee I-Lann was born in Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, East Malaysia in 1971 to a New Zealand mother and Sino-Kadazan [2] father. She identifies strongly as being Sabahan. She grew up with stories of Sulu, the land on the opposite shore to her [...]
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Malaysia@50 Results
© Johny Kok – Pool
Apologies for not digging deeper but the results for Malaysia@50 were actually released 2 weeks ago. Read the press article.
The Malaysian landscape teems with life waiting to be captured by that intuitive camera held by both young and old. The shutterbugs wandered through the neighbourhoods they grew up in and villages [...]
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Malaysia@50
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, [...]
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Wong Hoy Cheong: Days of Our Lives