In the evening, be refreshed and inspired by the ideas, concepts and thinking process behind the works by the photographers. Visiting curators and festival directors will also be sharing their projects.
1840s-1940s
12th Oct, Sunday, 2pm
National Museum of Singapore, Salon
Gael Newton is Senior Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia (NGA) in Canberra, and author of various monographs and numerous articles on Australian and international photographers, including the NGA’s Bicentennial Year history of Australian photography; ‘Shades of Light: Photography and Australia 1838-1988′. She is currently working on an exhibition on aspects of the history of photography in the Asia-Pacific region for the Canberra Photography festival in winter 2008. She will be giving an Evening Presentation entitled Picture Paradise: The First Century of Photography in the Asia-Pacific Region 1840s-1940s, and will also be part of the Curatorial Forum.
Fri 10 Oct, 7 pm
OldSchool, The Hall
Free Admission.
As one of the Thailand’s leading photo-artists, Manit will present his first official curatorial work at well-known French photo festival “Month of Photography IV” under the theme “Face to Faces” – portrait & self portrait.
He will talk about how he interpreted and chose artists and photographers’ works under the given theme. Why he mixed up works by Thais and non-Thais, by well-known contemporary artists and extremely unrecognized homeless people of Sanam Luang.
Fri 10 Oct, 8 pm
Old School, The Hall
Free Admission.
Curator Wang Xi will share some of the recent documentary works from China. There are landscape images of Chinese Red Light District by Changhe, followed by He Nan Countryside Portraits by Wang Yuming, Shan Zenghui’s documentary works on a man having a sex change operation, and finally works by Xiaobing on Impression After Mao.
Sun 12 Oct, 7 –8 pm,
Salon, National Museum of Singapore
Free Admission.
Meridel Rubenstein began her career in the late ‘70s, evolving from photographer of single image to multi-media artist of large-scale installations. Her works are known for their unusual combinations of materials, mediums, and ideas. Muridel is currently a visiting Professor of Photography & Digital Imaging at the Nanyang Technological University’s School of Art, Design and Media.
9th Oct, 8pm–9pm
Old School, The Hall
Free admission.
Over the last 3 decades, Pablo Batholomew has created amazing body of documentary works and influencing generations of young photographers in India. His strong works on Morphine Addicts in India and Bhopal Gas Tragedy have won World Press Photo Awards and other international awards. In this exclusive morning session, he will present his documentary works from the 1970s to his present personal projects and exhibitions in New York and New Delhi in recent years.
10th Oct 2008, 9pm-10pm
The Hall, Old School
Free Admission.
Zhao Renhui is a Singaporean artist practicing in both The United Kingdom and Singapore. An artist and zoologist, his practice investigates the different modes of the human zoological gaze. He has won awards for his zoological work, including the 2007 AOP Student Photographer Of The Year award. Now he is working closely with the Institute of Critical Zoologists on several exhibitions.
17th Oct, 7.30pm
Singapore Art Museum
Free Admission.
Paul Kohl is a visiting professor at Nanyang Technological University, ADM. As an artist, he has exhibited his works internationally, and published in both USA and Japan. In this lecture, he will discuss both technique and aesthetic content of his works which comprise both analogue and digital.
Sunday, 12 Oct, 8pm–9pm
Salon, National Museum of Singapore
Free Admission.
Dinh Q. Le holds a Masters in Fine Arts in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and is an award-winning photographer whose work has been exhibited at prestigious festivals in New York, Venice, and Seoul, amongst others. Le also co-founded the Los Angeles-based Vietnam Art Foundation, which supports Vietnamese artists and promotes artistic exchange between cultural workers from Vietnam and around the world. He is now on the peer committee for Arts Network Asia, and is a member of the Asia Society’s international council.
Tuesday, 14 Oct, 7pm–8pm
Seminar Room, National Museum of Singapore
Free Admission.
Photojournalist Bryan Van Der Beek will discuss the role of a photojournalist in the Singaporean media landscape and why it is so much more than simply documenting events. He will also share defining moments in his career and the experiences he has gathered while on assignment in Singapore and overseas.
Crossing between documentary & art
Tuesday, 14 Oct, 8pm–9pm
Seminar Room, National Museum of Singapore
Free Admission.
Malaysian photographer Khairul Azril Ismail takes the viewer within the ominous walls of Pudu Prison, one of the oldest jails in Kuala Lumpur where executions were common. The documentary of 3000 images captures the unsettling echoes of the inmates’ anguish, humiliation, alienation and a desire for redemption, but is presented as art through Khairul’s lens.
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