Before Covid-19.
Busy every day.
Work.
Rest.
Commute.
Preparation.
Calculate.
Fix.
Gather.
Tag: city
Some Time Ago V
What to do.
We are our environment.
Supplicants.
Covered in light and shadow.
To and fro.
Heavy news every day.
We carry on.
Some Time Ago IV
Again and again.
We try to figure things out.
With optimism.
Thoughts for display.
Waiting for more light.
Hurried thoughts.
Ruminating.
Some Time Ago III
Still waiting for an outcome.
It’s been a while.
Waiting.
Thinking.
It’s blurry but every day is made up of quick furtive glimpses like this.
Every day there’s news.
Sometimes it’s better to stay cocooned.
Some Time Ago II
Some more buying.
When things are not so intense.
When there’s audio space.
Space for different characters.
When people lay out their stuff and thoughts.
When there’s an immersion into everyday things.
Urban Nature
Farm nostalgia.
Urban nature humour.
A sunny grove.
Home.
Tsim Sha Tsui at Night
So here’s TST at night.
Everyone has a place to get to.
Spotted.
Someone’s waiting.
Someone’s looking.
Someone’s packing.
Someone’s unloading.
Boxes that have lost their purpose.
The mannequins and model are more alive than actual people.
We’re all shadows in a cave of our own making.
When Streets Are Busy
When streets are busy, they look like this:
No one notices the guy with the camera:
People are too preoccupied:
Work work work.
Sell sell sell.
Buy buy buy.
Go go go.
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Camera: Contax TVS II
Film: Agfa Vista 400
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
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
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