For something as mechanical and as straight forward as photography, it is very subtle, and very difficult to transform an almost invariable document into an insight.
A Journey In Reverse Direction, Zhu Lanqing 朱岚清
Zhu Lanqing is one of the youngest photographers ever to win the prestigious Three Shadows Photography Award in China. Her win was not without controversy.
Experimental film photography with Maika Elan, Vietnam
Maika Elan is the queen of experimental film photography, particularly the kind made with plastic cameras with cheap lenses.
Call For Grant Applications: 10th Edition, IPA Mentorship Program
We are offering 1 Scholarship Grant for the 10th Edition of the IPA Mentorship Program commencing in late March 2016. APPLICATION DEADLINE: SUNDAY, 14TH FEBRUARY 2016.
Zhang Xiao, About My Hometown
In ‘They’, Zhang showed secular Chongqing citizens at a moment of euphoric leisure. In ‘Coastline’, he travelled 18.000 kilometres along the Chinese coastline to photograph the surreal landscapes he encountered.
The War Of Memories, by Sanja Jugovic Burns
We take memory for granted as the absolute representation of the truth but as Oliver Sacks noted, “We as human beings are landed with memory systems that have fallibilities, frailties, and imperfections – but also great flexibility and creativity.”
Jeff Lam Pok Yin: About The Camera Itself
A surge of young contemporary photographers have been creating work centered around analogue photographic process and alternative photography.
State Land, by Marvin Tang
Hidden from sight, small private plots of gardens and plantations have been secretly created in the state-owned forested grounds of Singapore.
Portfolio Spotlight: Linh Pham – No Mud, No Lotus
The war has gone for 40 years in Vietnam, it is long enough that half of the young population don’t witness the horrific era. Vague feeling dominates the Vietnamese youth.
Portfolio Review Spotlight: Attavee B. Buanitisin
Attavee Buanitisin’s photographs of “Home ยังไม่เสร็จ” allow us an intimate peep into the quiet yearnings of middle-class families in Thailand.
Portfolio Review Spotlight: Chiara Luxardo
I was recently a portfolio reviewer at the Angkor Photo Festival. There were a few young photographers whose eyes and sensibilities I found myself drawn to.
I Don’t Need To Know You, by Katia Repina
Katia Repina worked on I Don’t Need To Know You during the IPA Mentorship Program. This project explores the forest park of Cataluna city.
Fragile Memories, by Kenji Mercado
A collection of visual translation of the memories about the Cambodian civil war that are recounted everyday by the tour guides in Siem Reap War Museum.
Roshini, by Chandan Khanna
Known for its innate charm and the wooden stilts which resembles an Elephant’s husk, this place is really isolated and the people living here face a lot of challenges in their everyday life.
The Space Between Us, by Grace Baey
Their love is one of distance mixed with desire, tenderness with tension, and passion compounded by the burden of parental pressure.