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
© Amanda Poh

Traces
© mintio

My Suburbia
© Vanessa Ban

Exhibition details:
18 June - 8 July
2902 Gallery, OLD SCHOOL
11b Mount Sophia Road, #B2-09

Opening Hours:
Tue - Sat: 11am–8pm
Sun: 1pm-6pm
Mon: By appointment only

psssttt…go support my friends!

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.

Filipino photographer, Miguel Nacianceno, shoots in a cool detached manner that adds another dimension to his subjects.

In Carnival, he explores the themes of nostalgia, beauty and emotional authenticity.

The surreal and manufactured place served as backdrops to real human emotion. Since carnivals almost always pack up and build some place else, I also felt like capturing that bit of transient quality to the place.

TOP TO BOTTOM, (from “Carnival Photography”), 2002
© Miguel Nacianceno

Visit his online portfolio to see more works.

Good Night, New York
© Miao Jiaxin

4: Photo Group Show, features works by four Chinese-born, New York-based photographers - Zhang Wu, Miao Jiaxin, Zheng Yaohua and Wang Yiqun (whom I featured earlier in the week).

The accompanying exhibition statement, Discomforting Anxieties, is a good read to find out more about the photographers and their works.

Exhibition details:
4: Photo Group Show
May 16th - June 21st, 2008

CAAC Gallery 456
456 Broadway, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10013

New online magazine hot off the digital presses, Vewd is an international photography website dedicated to continuing the tradition of storytelling through a visual medium - this includes documentary, photojournalism, street and portraiture in the form of galleries and multimedia pieces.

Do check it out!

Something odd to chase away the Monday blues for those of you half way around the world (it’s nearing midnight here).

Wang Yiqun explores the boundary between beauty and horror with his photographs of faceless women in the series ‘My Beauty’.

TOP TO BOTTOM. (from “My Beauty”)
© Wang Yiqun

From NetEase:

Wang Yiqun’s works are full of narrative arrangements. His manipulation of models, deliberate choices of settings and specific requirements of props are all footnotes to the storyline and complements to the photographer’s world view. Together, they give his photos a cinematic visual effect. The portraits are expressionless, and the lost facial details make it all the harder for the viewers to locate their identities.

More works here and here.

Shen Wei just updated his portfolio with a work-in-progress, containing a mixture of portraits, still life and landscapes.

Forbidden City, Beijing (from “Chinese Sentiment”), 2008
© Shen Wei

Lorence, Shanghai (from “Chinese Sentiment”), 2008
© Shen Wei

“God”, Huaxi, Guizhou Province (from “Chinese Sentiment”), 2008
© Shen Wei

I’m not so sure about the selection of images at the moment but it would be interesting to see how it develops over time.

Frivolous is the first solo show for Beijing-based Zu Jing at CPU:798, featuring two ongoing series, ‘Taxi Legs’ and ‘Blow Up’.

‘Taxi Legs’ presents the artist’s legs as their landscape upon which various objects from the artist’s immediate possessions are placed for our analysis…For the series ‘Blow Up’ Zu Jing snaps moments from every day life around her, but at a minute level of detail and abstraction.

TOP TO BOTTOM, (from “Taxi Legs”), 2006 - Present
© Zu Jing

In the vein of many socio-documentary work before hers, Zu Jing’s subject matter amplifies a generation of Chinese obsessed with the pursuit of worldly goods. Questions of identity and self are also raised. However, I’m getting slightly bored with the “socialist capitalism” concepts lately. At least this body of work provides something new.

More details here.

Exhibition details:
Zu Jing - Frivolous
8 June - 3 Aug 2008

CPU:798
2 Jiuxianqiao Lu
Chaoyang District
100015 Beijing
P.R. China

Mort Rosenblum and Gary Knight (from VII) have unveiled a new magazine - dispatches. The magazine’s financed by Dr. Simba Gill, an entrepreneur, scientist and businessman in the biotech and pharmaceutical industry. And it’s not one of those pdf magazines that you get free online.

dispatches took root on an olive farm in Provence, flourished on a Kashmiri houseboat, and was toasted into reality with champagne at the East Gate of Angkor Wat. Its founders are a photographer who believes his lens should not filter out humanity, a reporter who feels real news can only be seen from up close in its historical perspective, and a pharmaceutical executive who thinks entrepreneurs should do more than make money.

The first issue focuses on America and features photos by Antonin Kratochvil (I’m a fanboy!). In a rare mix of great writing and photography, dispatches looks too enticing to just glance over at the newsstand. If anyone wishes to surprise me with an international subscription, I promise not to tell myself!

Get tempted over at their site.

(via On Shadows)

I know I’m a little slow in posting this but I was learning so much going through the video interviews last weekend that I completely forgot about posting it. For those who are unaware of it, the World Press Photo awards has a lovely collection of interviews up on their site. Worth wasting spending time at it during work. :)