Robert Blake with Ore Huiying (front) and Fred Baldwin with George Wong(back) during the portfolio review Dinh Q. Le talking about Sarah Cheng-Dewinne’s work (front) as Sherman Ong, Françoise Callier and Pablo Bartholomew discuss work on a laptop (back) Today was the start of the two-day portfolio review session. It was an intense session for [...]
© 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 [...]
SIPF kicks off this Wednesday at 2902 Gallery and it’s gonna be a crazy month (and more) of photography happenings around Singapore. First off will be the exhibition launches at various locations across the island, followed by several talks and seminars this weekend. I would be going for the workshop next week! It’s hard trying [...]
Last year’s Shooting Home batch are having their reunion show, Doubt, at the Arts House next week. Master printmaker, Chris Yap, is curating the show. I am an alumni of Objectifs’ Shooting Home workshop and it’s truly one of its kind in Singapore. More details on their official website. I’m excited thinking about how they [...]
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, [...]
The SIPF has just been updated with news on the exhibitions, programs and events happening in October. The web monkeys would like to apologize for taking so long to get everything up and ready (It’s not complete yet but hopefully it’ll be soon). Head on over to see what’s gonna take place and if you’re heading down [...]
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, (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 [...]
Opening this Saturday at 2902 Gallery, a group exhibition featuring Amanda Poh, Clarence Aw, Jean Loo, Joel Yuen, mintio, Vanessa Ban and Tan Peiling. The show explores the idea of documenting the living as memory and memory as an intrinsic nature of human – to record the passage of time and life. 13th January © [...]
I’m a little late in running this. Singapore’s annual photography-based festival, Month of Photography, is back again this year. It is on from 13 June to 20 July and features a range of activities from exhibitions to workshops. Visit the official website for more details.
