After I posted this on my blog yesterday, I set out to go through my photos that were taken in Japan in 2012. I started with the images from the first week of our family holiday (even though I had reviewed most of these some months ago) to refresh my memory. What struck me as…
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Work has been hectic lately and I’ve not had much time to blog. As I’ll be travelling in the next three weeks – first to London for work, then back to Singapore (my last visit home was 18 months ago!) with a short trip to Bali – I wanted to jot down my thoughts and…
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For my project during the Magnum Photos workshop, I had considered focusing on Ludwigshafen – a city that is less than 30 minutes by train from Heidelberg – before eventually deciding on the disused tobacco machines instead. I spent a few hours on the first afternoon of the workshop taking photos around the city’s infamous central…
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Just a week ago, I was in Heidelberg having a most inspiring time during a four-day Magnum Photos workshop in Heidelberg that was organised in conjunction with the 5th Fotofestival Mannheim-Ludwigshafen-Heidelberg in Germany. During the workshop, there were three afternoons designated for shooting. I didn’t take any photos of the machines on the third afternoon as it was a…
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I recently read an essay “Darkness Visible” by William Styron that has the same title as his memoir in which he wrote about his struggle with depression (or ‘melancholia’ as he would prefer to call it) and how he emerged from it. I often find it hard to read a long article online as my…
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In just a few days I’ll in Heidelberg, Germany to participate in a Magnum photography workshop led by Chang Chien-Chi. Am super excited about it but am also a little anxious as I’ve still not decided on a subject for my project. Ideally, the subject should be related to the trans-territories theme of the 5th Fotofestival…
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