The photobook and the cookbook, the roads and the kitchen, as metaphors for our family’s story of migration and diaspora.
Announcement: Meet our 2018 Awards Jury Panel
We are most honoured and excited to announce our 2018 Jury Panel: NayanTara Gurung Kakshapati, Robert Godden, Jessica Lim, Wang Xi, Emmeline Yong, and Kevin WY Lee.
Advice for Artists and Photographers Starting Out
Photography and art are vocations that are different from a ‘regular’ job. Creativity cannot be spun out of financial duress.
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.
Introducing IPA MZ Editions: Select artist publications from Asia
We are excited to launch 18 titles with IPA MZ EDITIONS, a series of select photobooks by photographers and artists in Asia.
Photography, Power & Currency: WMA Interview with HK01
I don’t feel photography needs to be overtly ambitious in assuming impact or power. And in any case, impact and power are impossible to measure. Photography has a part to play in adding to a cumulative effect.
Spotlight: 10 Ukrainian Artists at Odessa/Batumi Photo Days
I wanted to learn if the anxieties and desires of Ukrainian artists were similar to those in Singapore and Asia, and what language they used in expressing them in their art and photography.
Learn all the rules, bin them, then pick one up again: Interview with Raw View Magazine
I recently got invited by Raw View Magazine to join their panel of consulting curators and will be contributing views from Asia.
Manit Sriwanichpoom on Art, Purpose and being Fearless
In the following conversation with prolific Thai artist/curator Manit Sriwanichpoom, we talk candidly about photography and purpose, censorship and compromises, and being fearless in art-making.
EPHEMERA: Exhibition. Experiment. An idea about ideas.
Ideas manifest themselves in visions, images, stories, hallucinations, blueprints, maps, words… Ephemera is about acknowledging, gathering and intensifying that Presence. Momentarily, for 18000 seconds.
Finding Survival and Triumph in Asia at Photo Kathmandu 2016
Invisible Photographer Asia is most honoured and excited to be partnering Photo Kathmandu for their second edition to be held between 21 October and 3 November, 2016.
Li Zhensheng 李振盛: Photography, Life & Vows during the Cultural Revolution
On 9th September 2016, the 40th death anniversary of Mao Zedong, we sit down with Li Zhensheng 李振盛 to talk about the Cultural Revolution, life and photography.
SIPF: The Photography Archive as Conversation
The Archive as Conversation examines the nature of photographs as documentation of events, occasions, people and personal memories.
Suddenly The Grass Became Greener, Kevin WY Lee
Suddenly The Grass Became Greener is a book of photographs made in Singapore during her 50th year as a nation, and the coincidental death of her gardener.
Call For Applications: IPA x SHS Photo Mentorship Grant
Following our successful Workshop Grant with the Singapore Heritage Society last year, we are partnering again to offer a second grant to participate in the IPA Mentorship Program.