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Maika Elan

Maika Elan

February 14, 2014 · by yaohong · in Showcase

Maika Elan’s photographs are infused with a sensitivity beyond her years. After taking a BA in sociology at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2006, Maika started to use the camera to document her daily and private life. Her…

imag(in)e sea #003

imag(in)e sea #003

October 23, 2013 · by yaohong · in Outreach

Nguyen The Son will be speaking one night only at imag(in)e sea #003 tonight. The talk will be held at Select Books, 730pm. TOP, “Fresh Vitality © Nguyen The Son, 2013 For the last ten years, Nguyen The Son has…

Liana Yang - The Innocence Project

Liana Yang – The Innocence Project

August 16, 2013 · by yaohong · in Exhibitions

When Liana Yang first told me about her upcoming exhibition, I felt uncomfortable. I did not know how to react, a body of work related to pornography in Singapore? Seriously? It seemed preposterous at that point of time but I’m…

Vignettes: Between Light and Dark

Vignettes: Between Light and Dark

July 26, 2013 · by yaohong · in Exhibitions

Vignettes is a group show featuring artists from China, Japan, Korea, Malaysia and Singapore, now on at 2902 Gallery. It features diverse works that span across genres, where established photographers are placed next to emerging young artists. Norihisa Hosaka’s Burning…

Saori Nakamura

Saori Nakamura

July 22, 2013 · by yaohong · in Showcase

A famous photographer once told me that the repetition of visual hooks can become a statement – only when technique does not overshadow content. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“I was in the quiet place all too soon.“) © Saori Nakamura…

Rina Nakano

Rina Nakano

July 20, 2013 · by yaohong · in Showcase

In her previous work, Rina Nakano asked strangers if she could listen to their heartbeats while she listened to theirs. In oscillate, sound waves are translated into disorder on a photographic medium. TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“oscillate“) © Rina Nakano…

Masashi Ohata

Masashi Ohata

March 5, 2011 · by yaohong · in Showcase

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Any“) © Masashi Ohata Daily observations of life, light as a feather. Masashi Ohata trains his eye on familiar everyday scenes, imbuing them with a dream-like quality. Do you dream in technicolor? More on his portfolio.

Shen Chao-Liang

Shen Chao-Liang

February 21, 2011 · by yaohong · in Showcase

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Stages“) © Shen Chao-Liang, 2006-2009 “The stage is a concrete physical place which asks to be filled, and to be given its own concrete language to speak.” – Antonin Artaud, The Theater And Its Double Taiwanese…

Chin-pao Chen

Chin-pao Chen

November 30, 2010 · by yaohong · in Showcase

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Circumgyration“) © Chen Chin-pao, 2004 Chen Chin-Pao taught in an elementary school for a decade (while completing a BFA from SVA, New York) and his series on Circumgyration caught my eye. On first glance, you would…

Samantha Tio - Table For One

Samantha Tio – Table For One

October 3, 2010 · by yaohong · in Showcase

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Table for One“) © Samantha Tio, 2009-2010 Samantha Tio, one of Singapore’s emerging photographers has completed her year long project – Table for One. Now it would be shown as an exhibition with an accompanying website…

Tetsuomi Sukeda

Tetsuomi Sukeda

August 2, 2010 · by yaohong · in Showcase

Tetsuomi Sukeda, born 1985, works and lives in Tokyo. We see an overriding sentimentalism throughout his pictures. TOP TO BOTTOM, © Tetsuomi Sukeda, 2005 Portfolio here, images here and here. What a better way of saying, “Hi, I’m back. I…

Zeinab Salarvand

Zeinab Salarvand

May 13, 2010 · by yaohong · in Showcase

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Interior, Exterior“) © Zeinab Salarvand, 2007 Dide Magazine is back with issue 2 and this time round Iranian photographer, Zeinab Salarvand, is featured with a series that leaves me rather unsettled. There is a saying that…

Xiao

Xiao

May 13, 2010 · by yaohong · in Showcase

TOP TO BOTTOM © Xiao Not much information on the photographer, Xiao, but he tells me that he was originally from Tian Jin, China. Spent a year in Japan halfway through his studies to “experience life” and he’s in the…

Koo Sung Soo

Koo Sung Soo

April 10, 2010 · by yaohong · in Showcase

I’m surprised that I’ve not come across this Korean photographer but Koo Sung Soo’s Magical Reality really caught my eye. The series consists of images filled with brightly colored manmade “monuments” – fake Statues of Liberty, a karaoke room (aptly…

Takashi Homma

Takashi Homma

December 29, 2009 · by yaohong · in Showcase

TOP TO MIDDLE, from (“Tokyo Suburbia“) © Takashi Homma, 1998 BOTTOM, from (“New Waves“) © Takashi Homma, 2003 Takashi Homma captures the dark ominous side of Tokyo in the late nineties in his series ‘Tokyo Suburbia’. Japan was at the…

Dayoung Kang

Dayoung Kang

December 24, 2009 · by yaohong · in Showcase

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“swallow“) © Dayoung Kang, 2009 Dayoung Kang’s swallow series depicts the anonymity and lack of identity in modern society. Faceless characters inhabit the images; unable to communicate with others in the society. The hidden wounds we…

Noriko Ishihara

Noriko Ishihara

December 13, 2009 · by yaohong · in Showcase

Noriko Ishihara’s works explores the inner human condition. Within our cages lie a multitude of concerns and fears – things that frighten us. The series questions the individual’s inner being and represents them in a whole new light. TOP TO…

Of Forest, Sea and Mountain’

Of Forest, Sea and Mountain’

November 17, 2009 · by yaohong · in Showcase

Of Forest, Sea and Mountain’ is a collection of images depicting the deconstruction of conventional landscape by three talented photographers Dju-lian Chng, Jovian Lim and Ang Song Nian , which will be exhibited at 2902 Gallery from Nov 25 to…

Chengdu Contemporary Photography

Chengdu Contemporary Photography

November 11, 2009 · by yaohong · in Exhibitions

© Liu Ke © Chen Chunlin Eight Chinese photographers are having an exhibition from Nov 19 to Dec 31 at the interesting-looking Redstar 35 building in Chengdu. The participating photographers are: Adou, Chen Chunlin, Feng Li, Li Jun, Luo Dan,…

Hiroshi Sugimoto: Lightning Fields

September 14, 2009 · by yaohong · in Showcase

TOP TO BOTTOM, from (“Lightning Fields“) © Hiroshi Sugimoto, 2009 It’s a small wonder why Sugimoto-san is considered one of the greatest living photographers. He constantly pushes the limits of what photography can achieve and creates works that just leave…

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