Candid, people photography
After a Vesak Day visit to the Buddha Tooth Relic Temple, I was waiting in line for lunch when I noticed this young girl quietly absorbed in a freshly opened coconut while her father queued for food nearby. Taken candidly and unnoticed amid the lunchtime crowd, it was one of those fleeting moments that might easily have passed by unnoticed, but her complete concentration on the coconut, seemingly oblivious to everything around her, caught my eye.
Taken at the OCT Loft Creative Culture Park in Shenzhen on a holiday visit last November… A passer-by moves across a mural depicting bodies in motion. For a fleeting moment, the living figure seems to continue the painted sequence. The photograph explores the relationship between art and life, stillness and movement, and how we quietly pass through spaces layered with stories before us.
I am pleased to share that Quiet Arc has been selected for the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Creative Eye Group Members’ Digital Exhibition 2025. I have been taking part since 2022 and this year’s submission feels a little different; it is the first without my father’s quiet guidance in the background.
I photographed this scene in 2020 and originally shared it as Right from the Heart, named after its location at The Heart at Marina One. With this new title, Quiet Arc, the image takes on a different tone, though the heart behind it still feels present.