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New website for my books and debut novel, Gus: The Life and Opinions of the Last Raffles' Banded Langur

December 09, 2023 in Writing, Singapore, Favourites

If you’d like to know more about my books & writing, including my debut novel, Gus: The Life & Opinions of the Last Raffles’ Banded Langur (forthcoming from Epigram Books 2024), then please do head over to my new website here.

I also have a free substack here with lots of information on writing and books.

I hope to meet you in the real world soon.

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Exorcising the Past with Jing-Jing Lee

August 17, 2022

Jing-Jing Lee was a Visiting Writer under the Asia Creative Writing Programme at Ntu in June and July 2022. She gave a three session creative writing workshop on Exorcising the Past.

You can find more details at the Asia Creative Writing Programme

Tags: Asia Creative Writing Programme, ACWP, SGLit, Jing-Jing Lee, Creative Writing, Workshops
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Best of 2015

October 15, 2020 in Favourites
Tags: Best of 2015, Leica
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Barcelona, Tokyo & Singapore

September 19, 2020 in Family & Friends, Japan, Singapore, Spain
Tags: hipstamatic, Tokyo, Singapore, Barcelona
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At home

July 12, 2020 in Family & Friends, Singapore
Tags: Sophia, Sony A7iii, Noctilux
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Bicycle Thinking

June 29, 2020 in Indonesia

“Ours is indeed an age of extremity, For we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large ratios by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.”

Susan Sontag, The Imagination of Disaster

Meanwhile, I’m thinking of getting bicycles. One each for the whole family.

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People in Front of a Billboard

June 17, 2020 in Singapore

“The history of photography has been less a journey than a growth. Its movement has not been linear and consecutive but centrifugal. Photography, and our understanding of it, has spread from a center; it has, by infusion, penetrated our consciousness. Like an organism, photography was born whole. It is in our progressive discovery of it that its history lies.”

- John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye

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Bloke, Singapore

June 17, 2020 in Singapore

“An artist is a man who seeks new structures in which to order and simplify his sense of the reality of life. For the artist photographer, much of his sense of reality (where his picture starts) and much of his sense of craft or structure (where his picture is completed) are anonymous and untraceable gifts from photography itself.”

-John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye

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Lady, Changi Airport, Singapore

June 17, 2020 in Singapore

“The influence of photography on modern painters (and on modern writers) has been great and inestimable. It is, strangely, easier to forget that photography has also influenced photographers. Not only great pictures by great photographers, but photography—the great undifferentiated, homogeneous whole of it—has been teacher, library, and laboratory for those who have consciously used the camera as artists.”

-John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye

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Singapore, Leica M9

Bloke, People's Park Complex, Singapore

June 17, 2020 in Singapore

“After a century and a quarter, photography's ability to challenge and reject our schematized notions of reality is still fresh. In his monograph on Francis Bacon, Lawrence Alloway speaks of the effect of photography on that painter: "The evasive nature of his imagery, which is shocking but obscure, like accident or atrocity photographs, is arrived at by using photography's huge repertory of visual images... Uncaptioned news photographs, for instance, often appear as momentous and extraordinary... Bacon used this property of photography to subvert the clarity of pose of figures in traditional painting.””

-John Szarkowski, the Photographer’s Eye

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Bloke Doing His Hair, Peoples Park Complex, Singapore

June 17, 2020 in Singapore

“Ivins wrote with rare perception of the effect that such pictures had on nineteenth-century eyes: "At first the public had talked a great deal about what it called photographic distortion... [But] it was not long before men began to think photographically, and thus to see for themselves things that it had previously taken the photograph to reveal to their astonished and protesting eyes. Just as nature had once imitated art, so now it began to imitate the picture made by the camera.” “

  • John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye

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Girl looking at models, 313 Somerset, Orchard Rd, Singapore, Leica M9, 2011

Girl looking at Models, Orchard Rd, Singapore

June 17, 2020 in Singapore

“Much has been said about the clarity of photography, but little has been said about its obscurity. And yet it is photography that has taught us to see from the unexpected vantage point, and has shown us pictures that give the sense of the scene, while withholding its narrative meaning.”

  • John Szarkowski, The Photographer’s Eye

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