Once when I was 5 or 6 years old, my dad gave me a piggyback ride one night and I looked up to the sky. I saw a ball of light, looked almost like one of the stars but it flew in circle for a while.
Artist Spotlight: Hannah Reyes Morales, Philippines
Hannah Reyes Morales is a Filipina photojournalist whose work focuses on individuals mired in complex situations created by inequality, poverty, and impunity.
Artist Spotlight: Charmaine Poh, Singapore
Charmaine Poh is a Singaporean-Chinese documentary photographer and artist whose work concerns memory, gender, youth, and solitude.
A Kachin Conflict, by Suthep Kritsanavarin
I have had the chance to travel to several places in Myanmar in the past ten years. Two states that are in the spotlight of international news are the Rakhine and Kachin states.
Artist Spotlight: Philip Ho, Singapore
Philip Ho (@thehumanawkward) is an IPA Alumnus and recent photography graduate from NTU School of Art, Design and Media (ADM) in Singapore. Philip also won this year’s Kwek Leng Joo Prize of Excellence in Still Photography.
Artist Spotlight: Igor Chekachkov, Ukraine
Taking the helm recently was Igor Chekachkov @chekachkov, a young artist from Ukraine. Ha is also one of our latest #IPAMentorship Grant recipients.
Artist Spotlight: Ha Dao, Vietnam
We have been inviting photographers and artists in Asia and spotlighting them in #IPAinstagramtakeover sessions on our Instagram feed.
Contested Landscapes: Northeast Hinterland Exhibition Notes
I am left imagining if Punggol was the scene of some post-Anthropocene reterritorialization, where the animals are the ones who have rehabilitated the space the space we left behind.Â
Beyond the River, Across the Sea, by Xinran Gu
Beyond the River, Across the Sea juxtaposes Fujianess fallen American Dream and fraught relationship with their ever-changing landscape of homeland. Â
éŠæ¹¯ / SENTO, by Toshihiro Yashiro
‘Sento’ was originally introduced to the Japanese people by Buddhist monks as a part of their missionary work in the Sixth Century.
High-rise buildings, Low-rise builders, by Panasann Pattanakulchai
A series of photographs which question the luxury of new high-rise buildings which are mushrooming all over Bangkok.
An island called Malevolence, by Carol Chow
Death fell upon a protected colony of Egrets in Hong Kong in June during prime breeding season when their tree sanctuaries were callously pruned.
Border and Boundary, by Alan ieon 楊俊榮
Alan ieon 楊俊榮 was born in 1987 in Macau and sees himself as the last generation of children born under colonial Macau.
The Shifting Horizon, by Ellen Leung Hoi Yan
The first land reclamation in Hong Kong was during the early Western Han Dynasty (206 BCE – 9 CE) when some beaches were turned into salt pans.
You Are Here, by Nguyen Minh Hoang
Nguyen Minh Hoang was a recipient of the IPA Mentorship Grant. You Are Here was made during the 14th Edition of the IPA Mentorship Program.