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Asia Meet: Portfolio Review
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The SIPF Portfolio Review provides artists and practitioners with opportunities to connect with industry stakeholders and receive expert feedback on their work. For this edition, over 15 invited reviewers will conduct one-to-one consultations in hybrid formats.

Pairing of reviewers and participants is on a first-come, first served basis.
Register and make payment by 4 October 2024, 23:59 (Singapore time, GMT+8).

Featured

Seminar: Photobook Clinic with Cheng Yinhe 程音和

The Photobook Clinic is an intimate 3-hour photobook dummy review session with Cheng Yinhe. Based in Zhejiang, China, he is…

Seminar: Words as Images, Images as Words: Expanding Photography through Writing with Emilia Martin

The relationship between photography and writing is a complex one—text can shift our perception of images, just as images can…

Masterclass: The New Forest (3rd Edition) with Robert Zhao Renhui

The New Forest is a four-week online masterclass inviting photographers, artists, researchers and individuals interested to embark on long-term projects…

Seminar: Midnight Sun with Carlos Alba

What is interesting for Carlos is how the progress of light technology allows humans to ‘colonise’ the night. Sometimes, this…

Asia Meet: Portfolio Review

The Portfolio Review was introduced in 2008 during the inaugural edition of SIPF. Since then, it has grown in its…

Anton Gautama Professional Development Scholarship

The Anton Gautama Professional Development Scholarship seeks to play a role in shaping the photography community in Southeast Asia. With the…

Masterclass: Fabulous Failures with Erik Kessels

We live in an age where most of our tools we use are close to perfection. Our cameras, phones, applications,…

Masterclass: Creating Narratives through Archives with Lukas Birk

In this masterclass, publisher and artist Lukas Birk will guide participants in transforming their historical materials—such as photographs, films, and…


Exhibitions

Around 42nd and 7th

In New York, Times Square attracts so many different people from all over the place. This area gives me illusions…

Veiled by Cloud and Mist

In the southeastern region of Guizhou, there are numerous ethnic minorities, with the Miao people being predominant. Surrounded by mountains…

Far away from home: the voices, the body and the periphery

“Are you a communist?” a Dutch citizen asked me in a heated debate. I didn’t know how to react, I…

Confrontation of The Absent Hero

These series of works stemmed from a core memory I had during my childhood. Through processwork, I have uncovered the…

Weapon of choice

“Loneliness, roaming youths, violence and predators. We were wild nocturnals in the dark, warm nights. Summer left quickly and before…

Flower No Flower, 花非花

Building on her A-level coursework, the photo artist adopts a conceptual approach to gently uncover the concealed aspects of her…

El pez muere por la boca / The Fish Dies By Its Mouth

“The Fish Dies By Its Mouth / El pez muere por la boca” reflects on the resilience and resistance of…

Ha Ja

The intricate and complex construction hidden within its bland, untitled cover unravels the life of my grandmother, Ha Ja, which…

Frantz Fanon, Me and the Questions

“Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. In underdeveloped countries the preceding…

1 2 3 2 1

“1 2 3 2 1” is a 304-page photo novel, that juxtaposes images created during and after Nagakura Nami’s pregnancy…

Happy Stones 快樂石頭

When I travel alone in Nanfang’ao for a week in spring, there are two things I want to do: paint…

I saw a tree bearing stones in the place of apples and pears

“In the Catholic church there are three classes of relics. The first class is body parts of a saint. The…

80°05′

In 1912, Japanese explorer Nobu Shirase attempted to become the first person to reach the South Pole, but had to…

Hidden Book

“Hidden Book” is a tragicomedy of 20th century social and political life, a choral story of a grieving and resilient…

Icons

The power of icons has consistently fascinated and perplexed artists. It has also challenged them to offer a different narrative…

A Flower on the Rock

This is the story of a young man from the countryside of the Tohoku region of Japan who entered the…

Hill Diaries

I don’t think this work is a project at all. This is more of an introspection, a peak into my…

In Search of Nessie

Alongside the projects I stubbornly pursued surrounding airports — “Unnamed Land: Air Port City” (2013-2020), “Night Spotting” (2015-2016) and “Myrtle…

All Things Laid Dormant

The cabinet looks empty — I take a step towards it, my breath fogging the glass. Keeping my gaze fixed,…

Men Don’t Cry

My dad cries a lot these days. Any sad movie never made him cry before. He didn’t cry when our…

Almanac of Forgotten Memories

In 2020 I became a father for the second time, and I moved back to Milan after living in New…

People of Clay

It took me many years to notice at quieter moments when no one was listening, she would sing. Simple tunes…

Borderland

The forest, which in Slavic mythology is a space where our world and the otherworld cross, also is a space…

Save as Text

By utilising glitches in photography and the image-making process of Jacquard Weave, Save as Text employs weaving as a form…

Born From The Same Root

I am Bang, and Hsien is my big brother. We are only a year apart in age. When we were…

State of Denial

My name is Sasha, and I’m a political exile from Belarus. In my homeland, a repressive dictatorship prevails, suppressing freedom…

Castle

Tuan’s debut book, “Castle,” delves into the personal toll of urban redevelopment, where the government seizes vast tracts of land…

The Oriental Scene

“The Oriental Scene” investigates the concept of Chinoiserie architecture in the UK in the context of de-colonialism. The project uses…

Chernobyl

“Chernobyl” is a document of the communities who inhabit and pass through the exclusion zone—an area covering approximately 2600 km2…

And the sun became black as sackcloth and the moon became red as blood

On February 24, 2022, my homeland started the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To understand where the roots of such aggression…

The Persistence of Family

Our connections to our ancestors and our descendants often feel stronger than connections to those around us. I often wish…

Cumulus

The collection guides viewers on an exploration of Harit’s early work. It compiles photographs, notes, and diary entries from his…

Things I can’t say out loud

After eight years of living apart, Riti Sengupta moved in with her parents at the onset of the pandemic. Upon…

D-AI

“D-AI” refl ects on the manipulation of reality through the media and social networks, and how artifi cial intelligence can…

APPUNTI PER UN’ORESTIADE AFRICANA (a democracy in fatigue)

Pasolini in his pseudo-documentary Appunti per un Orestiade Africane (1970) radicalises an aesthetic of the unfinished characterised by the desire…

Trailblazers

“Trailblazers” is an inquiry into Egypt’s feminist history through socially engaged self-portraiture and performance, integrated with public archives to forge…

Daegu était un grand étang (Daegu used to be a giant pond)

The first book of the Rhythm Series is Daegu était un grand étang (DAEGU USED TO BE A GIANT POND)…

BLACK SNAFU

Anti-Blackness seems inescapably mixed into whatever context I place it into; literature, science, government, health, art… look into any “field”…

Unsere Puppenstube (Our Dollhouse)

I have been photographing my younger sister Masantu for over ten years. I started taking it seriously when she expressed…

Dear Franklin

With vintage press clippings, letters – correspondence between two fiancés – and photographs, the artist Kurt Tong tells the life…




Talks and Tours




Workshops

Seminar: Photobook Clinic with Cheng Yinhe 程音和

The Photobook Clinic is an intimate 3-hour photobook dummy review session with Cheng Yinhe. Based in Zhejiang, China, he is…

Seminar: Words as Images, Images as Words: Expanding Photography through Writing with Emilia Martin

The relationship between photography and writing is a complex one—text can shift our perception of images, just as images can…

Seminar: Midnight Sun with Carlos Alba

What is interesting for Carlos is how the progress of light technology allows humans to ‘colonise’ the night. Sometimes, this…

Asia Meet: Portfolio Review

The Portfolio Review was introduced in 2008 during the inaugural edition of SIPF. Since then, it has grown in its…

Masterclass: The New Forest (3rd Edition) with Robert Zhao Renhui

The New Forest is a four-week online masterclass inviting photographers, artists, researchers and individuals interested to embark on long-term projects…

Masterclass: Fabulous Failures with Erik Kessels

We live in an age where most of our tools we use are close to perfection. Our cameras, phones, applications,…

Masterclass: Creating Narratives through Archives with Lukas Birk

In this masterclass, publisher and artist Lukas Birk will guide participants in transforming their historical materials—such as photographs, films, and…




Venues


Festival Office
Skyline Building

192 Waterloo Street, #05-08
Singapore 187966

Office Hours
Mon to Sun: 10am to 7pm
By appointment only


Coming up in 2025
DECK

120A Prinsep Street
Singapore 187937

An independent initiative to build a visual arts centre dedicated to photography and media arts in Singapore.

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