An ongoing personal project in which I have tried to document the daily life of southern Thailand’s population as it struggles to deal with an increasingly violent ethnic conflict.
Photo Essay: Selamat Padang, by Miko de Vera
Padang is the capital and the largest city of Sumbar, Indonesia. Located at the heart of the western coast of Sumatra, Padang is still predominantly inhabited by its native residents called the Minangkabau people.
Photo Essay: Small Things, by Binh Dang
Small Things is a project of mine currently in progress. There is this house, named THIEN GIAO, located next to the sea and about 120km from the central city of Viet Nam.
The Poverty Line, by Stefen Chow
This body of work explores a simple question. What does it mean to be poor? It is not an emotional statement. It is an examination of the choices one would face living at the poverty line.
Connecting Flights, by Darren Soh
Modern air travel has made the world more connected than ever. There are few places left on the planet where you cannot access if you had the patience to make several connecting flights.
Photo Essay: Before Tomorrow, by Yannik Willing
In my project, I am concerned with the imminent radical changes of tourist regions in Sri Lanka after the end of the civil war in 2009 that had lasted almost thirty years.
Photo Essay: Myanmar in Transition, by Lam Yik Fei
Myanmar has been ruled by the authoritarian military junta for decades. It was a challenge visiting Nobel Prize winning activist Aung San Suu Kyi a year ago.
At Our Doorsteps, by Sam Kang Li
My name is Kang Li. I have lived in Block 230G of Tampines street 21 since 1993. It is a point block of 44 households spread over 12 storeys.
Photo Essay: Serangoon Singapore as it is, by Frido Adeodatus Tanuwidjaja
Folklore says that this area got its name from a small marsh bird called Burung Ranggong. Serangoon, as it is called now, has been a second home for me lately.
Chinese Happy People, by Rachel Lim
The overflow of China’s domestic travellers for a ‘Hawaiian beach holiday’ experience has worn out the island of Hainan (海南). With popularity and profits come pollution, over-crowding, and the effects of aggressive and unchecked profiteering.
Photo Essay: Typhoon Sendong, by John Javellana
Typhoon Washi, locally known as “Sendong” hit the southern Philippines on December 16, 2011 triggering flash floods and landslides which resulted into 1,268 confirmed dead in the rampaging floodwaters brought by the tropical storm.
Wrapped Future, by Lim Sokchanlina
The land enclosed is no longer a presence, as if what was displaced or destroyed at these sites no longer matters. Memory has been traded for development. What will be erected with a strict belief that the future is the only concern?
Fragile, by Jes Aznar
A major island in southern Philippines that was made synonymous to war and terrorism by the western world, Mindanao is a place unconquered by outsiders until the Americans came in during the turn of the century.
Panoramic Singapore, by Tay Kay Chin
A selection of Tay Kay Chin’s Hasselblad Masters 2003 award-winning panoramic street photographs of Singapore.
Photo Essay: 5 Cambodian Lives, by Thomas Cristofoletti
During my trip to Cambodia, and with the support of the Spanish NGO Paz y Desarrollo, I had the opportunity to follow the lives of 5 Cambodian women (and their families) in three of the most remote regions of the country, in order to report their daily routines from dawn till dusk.