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We’ve featured many great photographs and photographers on Invisble Ph t grapher Asia in the past year. Here’s our Editor’s Pick of the top 10 black & white street and documentary photographs featured in a photo essay or photo single in 2010.
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Filial responsibility has always been a cornerstone of China’s traditional Confucian society. However, as the country races towards modernization, more and more Chinese are struggling to care for elderly members of their family.
Continue Reading →Synopsis: The situation is pretty grim at several villages around Tandikat, up in the hills north of Pariaman. Villages were lost overnight in the 7.6 magnitude earthquake and landslide on 30 Sept 2009. The epicenter was 45 kilometres (28 miles) west-northwest of Padang, Sumatra, and 220 kilometres (140 miles) southwest of Pekanbaru, Sumatra. Early death-toll estimates extended beyond 1300. Ten [...]
Continue Reading →Born in Taipei and raised in Hong Kong, Thomas Lee now meanders between East and West working as a photojournalist, artist and filmmaker-photographer in New York and Hong Kong. Thomas’s work has won awards and seen publication by the likes of Time Magazine, The New York Times, Rolling Stone Magazine, and The Guardian amongst others. In [...]
Continue Reading →Synopsis: As one of the first high-rise buildings of Singapore’s post-colonial redevelopments, the Golden Mile Complex at Beach Road is unlikely to survive the next couple of years. Built as a ‘vertical city’, it is one of the very few projects following the Japanese “Metabolist Movement” – an architectural organism, open to grow and change [...]
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Synopsis: Stemmed from his own misconceptions and prejudice against the mentally-ill, “Out of Sight, Out of Mind” is the first serious project photojournalist Kevin Lim embarked on and completed before he joined The Straits Times as a staffer.
Continue Reading →Title: Red Light Synopsis These streets leave you with the ghosts of memory. Hang a right from Sims Avenue, a left on Paya Lebar Road, and there you are: Geylang Road in Singapore, a messy urban sprawl with old shophouses flanking both sides.
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Title: Indonesia’s Stories Photographer: Jose Luis Jaime, Indonesia Website: www.joseluisjaime.com Indonesia’s Stories is a photo essay submission from our readers – Thanks Jose, great photographs and haunting essay.
Continue Reading →Photo Essay: 重庆 Chongqing Photographer: Yu Rui, Singapore/China Equipment: Seagull 4A TLR All photographs/art are the property of the credited photographer and creator with all rights reserved.
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Paul Swee calls Terrence Ong his favourite street photographer in Malaysia. Armed with the classic street photography kit – a rangefinder camera paired a 35mm lens – Terrence prowls the streets of Kuala Lumpur and other Southeast Asian cities for that elusive, decisive, black and white moment. In this Invisible Interview, he shares with us [...]
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I tend to see my projects as films, the work may be inspired by a social, environmental issue, it might be something more lighthearted and self indulgent.
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Video: Five Frames One Story featuring photography from Paul Swee, Man Wu, and Terrence Ong.
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