Ngee Ann Photographic Exhibition


The inaugral Ngee Ann Photographic Exhibition (NAPE) is currently being held at the Ngee Ann Cultural Centre Exhibition Hall, Teochew Building (located at 97 Tank Road, near UE Square/Liang Court) from 16-24 July 2005. My dad has been named the Photographer of the Year for the event and will be giving a talk this Sunday (17 July) on “My Art of Seeing”. I am honoured to have 5 of my works on display at the exhibition too, namely: Mountains in the Sunshine and Mist, The Chaotic Sea Of Gulls, è·¯ (Journey), City Of Lights and The Sunshine Before The Storm. To see more works by other photographers, you can view the exhibition online here.

By The Bridge


I use some of the pictures that I take for running a slideshow screensaver on my PC. Most of these pictures end up on my photoblog. The above is one photo that I took on New Year’s Day 2004, which I have somehow missed putting up. I was struck by the nice contrast of deep saturated colours when it showed up on my screensaver a couple of days ago.

Working On The Schematics


Another shot that will be featured at the upcoming exhibition in Romania… This was taken in March 2004. My thoughts then:

Another shot of the construction activity going on at the Singapore Management University site at Bras Basah, right in the heart of town. The brilliantly-lit worker caught my eye as he got to work securing the scaffold-frame as well as the lines and patterns formed by the rest of the scaffolding. I have processed the picture in Photoshop to bring out the impact of the lone worker, and at the same time, stylizing the scaffold framework to give a schematic-feel to it. Some people are no doubt going to hate the processing while others may like it. As they say, art is subjective 😛

As it stands, subjectively speaking, this shot was well-liked by at least two salons: it got a honourable mention at the 3rd Suncoast Virtual Exhibition last year, as well as an acceptance at the Tropical Image 2005 Exhibition 🙂