Photography in Singapore, The Early Years
By: Shaz Hassan
The tiny island of Singapore, with its limited space, tends to build upwards and often. Continuous redevelopment ensures a radically impermanent facade. Shopping malls rise and fall with alarming regularity and those living in cheap government housing are obsessed with 'upgrading'. In a very real sense, the Singapore that I knew as a child was not the one I knew as a teenager or an adult.
Photography in Singapore
One of the major functions of photography is preservation. Through the lens, we acknowledge the fluidity of time and try to capture moments that we know will have passed with the clicking of the shutter. This, in part, might explain why photography is so popular in Singapore. When we take holiday photographs, we attempt to capture a shifting landscape alien to us and, transposed to the Singaporean context, takes on a different meaning when your home changes so often that entire personal histories might be forgotten without some record of it.
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Latitudes.nu 2011 Photo Contest: ‘Transport, Transport’!
‘Transport transport’? This will sound familiar to everybody who has ever set foot on Bali. Drivers renting their minivans or jeeps and themselves out to bring you wherever you want to go…Smiling from ear to ear, mimicking a steering wheel with both of their hands…'Transport Transport Mister?'
Transportation is the theme of this photo contest. You can interpret it as widely or narrowly as you want to. It could be vehicles in various states of disrepair, people propped up in a van, animals used as means of transportation or being transported. Funny or sad..standing still in traffic or racing along…it’s up to you!
The Latitudes.nu Photo Contest Low Down
Some rules: Photos must be your own work and copyright free. Images need to have something to do with Southeast Asia. You can submit an unlimited amount of pictures. Latitudes.nu holds the right to use photos in future publications.
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