Documentary Photographic Projects

Mid-term project: Clipped

Involves the arrangement of a series of artwork in a grid pattern to simulate a window, which is the most common cause of bird deaths in Singapore.

Visited the lab at NUS to document relatively fresh carcasses, with the assistance of researcher David Tan of NUS and photographer Jasvic Lye, an undergraduate from NTU ADM.

The six birds documented are Read more →

This post includes some thoughts about my final project, how I could expand on it, and my artist statement.

Final Project for DP3006

Artist Statement:

Clipped (2018)

Inkjet Prints on Matte Paper, Inkjet Print on Rice Paper, Silver Mirror fragments, Laserjet Transfer on Wood

Varying Dimensions

Singapore is one of the stopping points of migratory birds flying along the East Asian-Australasian flyway. Being a densely populated Read more →

Fear or Islam

As I was exploring global, local and personal issues, I found that one of the major things happening right now are how the Islamic religion is being misinterpreted and misunderstood by so many due to recent events (terror attacks, ISIS).

Ever since the attacks occurred in the United Kingdom, one being not far from my home, I feel that Read more →

Edward Burtynsky

Water

While trying to accommodate the growing needs of an expanding, and very thirsty civilization, we are reshaping the Earth in colossal ways. In this new and powerful role over the planet, we are also capable of engineering our own demise. We have to learn to think more long-term about the consequences of what we are doing, while we are Read more →

News on water pollution

Afroz Shah moved to Versova beach. Plastic was 5.5feet high. Trash was 1,684,500 pounds. Cleaned up 52 public toilets and planted 50 coconut trees.  8 to 13 million tons of plastic make it into the world’s oceans each year.

2017 was the hottest year for the oceans.

“The likelihood of disease increases from 4 percent to 89 Read more →

For my final project, I wanted to explore the space between a person being fully himself or herself while being awake and fully conscious. My previous midterm project To Be You was a photographic series of people sleeping, as at that point, I found that the only time we were able to be truly ourselves was when we Read more →

KINDRED ARTISTS:

Born in New York City, 1890, Paul Strand was a photographer in the 20th century, who, with other renowned names like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, was famous for establishing and popularising photography as a form of art.

He was particularly known for his street photography, which was thought to be very honest Read more →

Old and New Documentary