The photobook and the cookbook, the roads and the kitchen, as metaphors for our family’s story of migration and diaspora.
2018 Award Finalist: 31, by Bai Shan
31, by Bai Shan [China] is a Photobook Award Finalist in the Invisible Photographer Asia Awards 2018.
Photobook: Kingdom’s Edge, by Richard Humphries
Through this collection of 79 colour photographs Richard, a fluent Malay speaker, examines the complex intricacies and subtle incongruities of daily life in South East Asia’s deadliest conflict.
Hong Kong x Singapore Photobook Exchange, April 2017
HK/SG Photobook Exchange is an extension of our efforts to further dialogue, development and appreciation of photography and publishing practice in Singapore and the region.
Photobook: Good Day Good Night, by South Ho 何兆南
Photography might have been an old friend, yet after this year of seemingly normal life, he has become more like a stranger to me. Just like strangers on the streets, you no longer say “good day” and “good night” to them.
Beyond Wilderness, Chua Chye Teck
Beyond Wilderness is a book of photographs (2014–2015) by Singaporean artist Chua Chye Teck of the disappearing forests and wilderness in Singapore.
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.
Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey, by Zhuang Wubin
In Southeast Asia, our understanding of photography is largely framed through the binary of photography versus art, which morphs into the other dichotomous paradigm of straight photographers versus artists who use photography.
Featured Collectives: Myanmar Street Photographers Debut
Myanmar’s first organised group of Street Photographers will debut their exhibition in the country’s capital Yangon on 17th September 2016.
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.
Jehsong Baak – Fading Fury, A Life Once Had
Paris-based photographer Jehsong Baak is self-publishing Fading Fury, his third book of diaristic photographs, made 30 years ago, of friends, lovers and fading faces.
Alex Baluyut: Brotherhood – The Drug War in Philippines
A drug war was also waged at this time I took these photos, and the results were the same. The drug trade continued, other people replacing the dead ones to rule the drug cartels.
Jekyll, Hyde and Joker: Fetish & Aesthetics with Kapil Das
Kapil Das has 3 of his haphazardly titled and dummied photobooks shortlisted simultaneously for 3 different book awards.
Making the Taiwan Photobook with Chang Chao-Tang
Master photographer and curator Chang Chao-Tang 張照堂 shares his process in editing and making photobooks in Taiwan.
Book: Left to Right – Querying Singapore’s Manic Image Factory
A new publication ‘Left to Right (L-R)’ brings together 53 entries by artists, curators and writers based in Singapore and beyond.