A Thinking Street Photography Site
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
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
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
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
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
Lots of street shots to do with construction workers.
Quite literally, these are the people who built Singapore.
I grew up in Singapore, and even to me, the heat is too much at times.
So yes, this is hard work.
These were taken at various places.
The scenes are ubiquitous.
Singapore depends a lot on foreign labour.
Working behind the scenes.
So we have these.
Camera: Olympus XA 2
Film: Agfa Vista 400
I was in Penang recently with my family and many of the street pictures were taken with my Olympus XA 2, in-between vacation shots taken with my Canon 600D.
The above was taken while riding a trishaw.
Another shot, taken from a trishaw.
The Gurney Drive street food market was where we found ourselves on most days.
Fried oyster!
Yummy!
Lok lok!
Laksa!
That’s the “Chinese rojak” stall.
That’s the Indian rojak stall.
Sotong kangkong!
So yes, street food was on the top of our list at Penang.
Camera: Olympus XA 2
Film: Agfa Vista 400
An Olympus XA2 is light, small and discreet.
I’d raise it to my eye and no one would notice.
Even if they do notice, people would be less likely to react, compared to if you point at them with a gigantic Canon 5D Mark III.
You could capture people and their environment – the lens is wide enough.
There’s the interaction between person and space.
Its convenience cannot be overemphasized – a matter of pulling the camera out of your cargo pants pocket when the opportunity presents itself.
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2 400
There’s a blindness to the streets we need to learn to see.
There’s the individual, and there’s society.
The street looks back.
We negotiate the streets.
We work the streets.
We refresh the streets.
The street is at rest.
Thanks for reading!
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2 400
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2 400
Never turn your back on the street.
Some streets are for sale.
Other streets are for friends.
Streets are for hanging around.
There’s a street attitude to tease out.
You’ll never know who is looking from the street.
Some streets are nicer.
Some streets are more equal than others.
Thanks for reading!
Camera: Olympus XA2
Film: Ilford XP2 400
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