A bit of self reflection.
Now you see me.
Now you don’t.
There’re lives here waiting to happen.
Journeys waiting to happen.
Games to begin.
Steps to take.
Obstacles to avoid.
Work to do.
Camera: Contax TVS II
Film: Kodak UltraMax 400
Category: About Singapore
Spaces of Discipline
We shape the city.
The city shapes us.
We create new possibilities.
But there’re only so many paths you could choose to take.
Sometimes the view surprises us.
Sometimes it stops us from going further.
We have to do the work of philosophy.
To think about what we’re moving, and what moves us.
Camera: Contax TVS II
Film: Kodak UltraMax 400
Urban Space in Singapore
We like to know where we are in urban space.
We cannot help ourselves.
We need to know where we are.
We need space to frame ourselves.
But space can speak for itself.
Sometimes we’re simply compelled to look.
And look again.
Thanks for reading!
Camera: Contax TVS II
Film: Kodak UltraMax 400
Spaces of Beauty
Whenever we’re in Singapore, my children get to attend school there. So they get to see their classmates in Singapore once a year, for a few weeks.
This area is near my daughter’s school.
The reds and greens interact nicely.
So yes, it’s good to carry a film camera wherever I go.
I spent a few mornings thinking about colours and composition.
Things make sense here.
This is everyday Singapore.
Camera: Contax TVS II
Film: Kodak UltraMax 400
Singapore Chinatown Monochrome
Some more Chinatown…
Singapore’s Chinatown is very … organized.
It’s for tourists, of course.
With lots of souvenirs to buy.
There’s lots of waiting to do. (Durians!)
And pockets of intense concentration.
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2
Singapore’s Chinatown in Colour
Chinatown!
Having lunch.
Looks yummy.
This is also a space of commodity.
Though people do live and make a living here.
Tiong Bahru Pao!
Colourful drinks stall.
Yummy hawker food!
Touristy stalls.
Waiting for Tintin.
Ice cream with biscuit!
Another tourist souvenir stall.
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Agfa Vista 400
Singapore’s Little India in Colour
My previous post on Little India was in b/w.
These are in colour.
Friends in conversation.
A street fruit stall.
A framed place.
A vegetable stall.
I can’t resist another shot at the sign, as if to assure myself that everything has its place in Singapore.
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Agfa Vista 400
Singapore’s Little India in B/W
These are b/w street photographs of Little India.
Think of these as a nod towards Aik Beng Chia’s work on Little India.
Check out his excellent work Tonight the Streets Are Ours here and here.
There’s definitely a strong sense of community here.
People are always in touch with one another.
Scenes of friendship.
Street scenes.
Joy of the streets.
The streets are institutionalized and framed.
That doesn’t mean we should stop searching and looking.
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2 400
Singapore Street Photography
These are various snapshots in Singapore, with no particular order or theme in mind.
Though I must confess a significant number of images have to do with food…
He’s eating.
He’s texting.
He’s working really hard.
He’s buying.
I’m buying.
I’m buying some more.
These, I suppose, make up part of what Singapore is.
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2
Raffles Place Lunchtime
That’s the courtyard between the 2 main exits of Raffles Place MRT station.
Lunchtime – that funny, in-between time that is part-leisure, part-work, part-consumption.
People relaxing.
Waiting.
Posing.
Catching up.
Having a smoke break.
All caught up and immersed in the ever-present, not too far away from a reminder from history, of how times have changed and will change again.
Thanks for reading!
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2
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