3 years ago, Google began stalking the streets of the real world with electric automobiles (each one armed with nine cameras on a single pole), much like how they stalked and indexed the virtual world. The result of the project, called Google Street View, is a huge matrix of geo-tagged street photography. Now what Jon Rafman [...]
Continue Reading →Ed Ou is a young photojournalist from Canada. At age 23, he’s already covered the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, as well as the fall of the Islamic Courts in Somalia, whilst studying politics in the Middle East. He was selected as one of PDN’s 30 Under 30 in 2008, and his work has been recognized [...]
Continue Reading →I recently walked into a local camera dealer curious about the much maligned Leica M8, but walked out a little while later, with the M9 and a wallet three times lighter than I had originally intended. My previous 35mm experience has been with photographing with a Leica MP, M7, M6, M3, and M2 – all film [...]
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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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A photographer that caught our eye at the Singapore International Photography Festival exhibitions was Palani Mohan. We didn’t get a chance to meet him, but his photographs of India’s Kushti Wrestlers mesmerized us with it’s sensuality and beauty.
Continue Reading →Bernard Tan and I have just come back from a 3 day trip in Cambodia where we spent considerable time with The Riverkids Project and also with the slum communities in Phnom Penh. We experienced first hand the wonderful social work The Riverkids Project are doing on the ground for poverty-stricken kids and their families who [...]
Continue Reading →Popped by the 2nd Singapore International Photography Festival at Old School at Mount Sophia, Singapore. Some great exhibitions by contemporary photographers, including Li Wei and his ‘The Earth’ Exhibition. We previously featured Li Wei in our Invisible Interviews. The festival theme this year is ‘Human Nature’, with exhibitions on show till 13th November 2010. Here are some [...]
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Original article in Juice Magazine October 2010 Issue. Text by Renee Lorentzen. Photographs by Kevin WY Lee and Paul Swee. Street photography blogs might be all the rage this moment, but Kevin Lee of The Invisible Photographer is taking this new phenomenon to a whole other level. Combining his passion for street photography and a strong love for Asia, Kevin launched The [...]
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We met the humble Yang Yan Kang at his ‘Of Legends and Beliefs’ Exhibition held at the Leica Store Singapore Opening yesterday. He autographed and gave us a copy of his book of postcards. Here are some pictures of Yang and his beautiful documentary photographs of Tibet in his book.
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We made an impromptu visit to the official Leica Store, Singapore which opened today at Raffles Hotel Arcade. Coinciding with the store launch is a beautiful exhibition ‘Of Legends and Beliefs’ by Yang Yan Kang, a China-based photographer and member of French agency VU. Yang Yan Kang was present so we had a little chat.
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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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