Category Archives: Singapore
Joel Yuen
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 [...]
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L ‘Etranger – Kar-Wai Wesley
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 [...]
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Persistency of Living | Memory
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 © [...]
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MOP: Singapore
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.
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SIngapore International Photography Festival
Some exciting news coming from home – the inaugural Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) is slated to be held from Oct 8 to 31. It’s going to be a biennial event, to provide a platform for local and Southeast Asian artists to showcase their works alongside their international peers in various venues across Singapore. I [...]
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30th February
Chow Chee Yong would be presenting his 6th solo exhibition at Kay Ngee Tan Architects Gallery from 19th Feb to 15 Mar. Drawing influences from the surrealists, most notably Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte and Op Artist MC Escher, Chow questions possibilities of subverting expectations of the experiences. These processes of questioning reality forms the catalyst [...]
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PEEK!
PEEK! 28th Feb till 9th March 14 photographers’ 114 works are selected for Month of Photography, Japan 2008. Here is the chance to catch the works before they are shipped to Tokyo on 12 March 08. 14 Photographers: Chris YAP Wooi Hoe, Ken SEET, CHOW Chee Yong, WEE Kheng-Li, Deanna NG, Gwen LEE Gim Lay, [...]
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Alan Soon
Fellow countryman, Alan Soon, is a consummate street photographer who leads a double life as a television producer. He has a collection of images, which will definitely wake the travel bug in you. Top to bottom, Myanmar series, © Alan Soon Visit his online portfolio to see more.
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Dance Me Through The Dark
© Tan Ngiap Heng Dance Me Through The Dark is the culmination of 8 years of work by Singaporean photographer, Tan Ngiap Heng. From his blog: It is a labour of love and the people that have been the most enthusiastic about it have been the dancers that worked with me on the project. It [...]
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SIPF Update