Category Archives: Southeast Asia
TransportAsian
Opening this Friday in conjunction with the Singapore Art Festival and Month of Photography is a group exhibition, TransportAsian, at the Singapore Art Museum. Centered around transportation in Asia, artists from Asia and Southeast Asia were invited to explore and interpret the the themes. Artists involved are Dominic Khoo, John Clang, Chua Chye Teck, Samantha [...]
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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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Angkor Photography Festival
TOP, from (“Thai Child Boxing“)
© Susetta Bozzi, 2008
Now that SIPF is over, the next big event to watch out in Southeast Asia is the Angkor Photography Festival. It will be on from 23 Nov to 28 Nov in Siem Reap, Cambodia. The first festival of its kind in SEA, this is its fourth year running. [...]
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SIPF Portfolio Review
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 most of [...]
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SIPF Update
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 [...]
FCCT Photo Contest 2008
This just came into my mailbox today:
The FCCT is pleased to announce its Second Annual FCCT Photojournalism Awards, the premier photojournalism contest in Asia.
Who’s Eligible? Any pro or amateur photographer in Southeast Asia (defined as: Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines and Brunei). Photographers do NOT need to be members [...]
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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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Project Shutter
Project Shutter is a project under Microsoft Asia-Pacific to link photographers in the region together. Several popular forums from each country has been chosen as partners: Canon Club from Thailand, Fengniao.com and POCO from China, Forum Kamera, Fotografer.net and Kamera-Digital.com from Indonesia, PixPROs from Thailand, LensaMalaysia from Malaysia and ClubSnap from Singapore.
Designed for the budding [...]
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Sherman Ong: Art, Life and Identity
Sherman Ong is an award-winning filmmaker, photographer and educator from Malaysia, based in Singapore.
Straddling fiction and documentary, his films were exhibited in Europe, US, Brazil and Asia and have won awards in Hong Kong, Greece, Italy, Indonesia and Malaysia. He is an alumnus of the 1st Berlinale Talent Campus 2003 and has premiered works [...]
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