My good friend Sean recently updated his website. He is an extremely talented photographer who seeks to balance his art and cheque books, i.e. fashion shoots. His online portfolio is centered around the latter but in times like this, we all need more work. © Sean Lee Pretty people and artificial lights aside, Sean shoots [...]
It’s like this all the time. I find somebody really interesting that I want to post about but life gets the better of me and I keep pushing it back. Now that I have made a conscious effort not to do any work tonight, I’m presenting to you a young photojournalist from my nation city. [...]
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 [...]
I’m slightly behind my posting but opening today at The Cathay Gallery is an exhibition, The Life of My Sisters, by Debby Ng and Edwin Koo. In collaboration with The Little Sisters Fund and asia! magazine, the photographers entered the lives of young Nepalese girls currently receiving help from the fund. The Little Sisters Fund [...]
Based in Singapore, advertising photographer Alvin Tang has a specific style and approach to his personal and commercial work. I think that his personal work might be a little too commercial for some people. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Secrets“) © Alvin Tang Alvin Tang’s commitment to narrativity is often present in both his commercial and [...]
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 [...]
TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“The Rice Project“) © The Rice Project Team, 2008 The Rice Project is a photography exhibition featuring the works of 10 photographers who turned the spotlight back on the Asian Tsunami survivors in Sri Lanka. Five years after the tragedy, houses and lives are still being rebuilt. The project started off [...]
A pack of androgynous youths roaming the streets in the dark. Raised as a Pack of Wolves is a visual narrative revolving around a family of youths who come together in support of each other where they fend for themselves in the wild. This series shows their attempts to establish familial ties during the awkwardness of adolescence, as [...]
This is a series of portraitures that seeks to explore the individual’s reaction to life’s many uncertainties. Faced with an infinite number of choices daily, how does one progress from the Present to the Future? How does one make sense of an abstract concept amidst the surrounding chaos? Into The Unknown The Unbridled Freedom After [...]
Kimmo Lehtonen showing images from an IPRN commission by Italian photographer Luigi Gariglio The three-day Southeast Asian workshop kicked off yesterday with contributors such as Pablo Bartholomew, Manit Sriwanichpoom, Robert Blake, Kimmo Lehtonen and Alain Jullien. The aim of the workshop is to guide emerging artists from Southeast Asia towards developing their personal work and [...]
