Exhibitions

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The worlds we traverse, the worlds that linger

17 Oct 2026 — 15 Nov 2026

In the island-state of Singapore, lands and space are framed as scarce, limited resources whose value is measured against efficiency…

In the Comfort of All Things

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

In the Comfort of All Things features the works of two Korea-based photographers, Park Cheol Kyu and MinzouChowon Ghim. Park…

photo/book/sg : A Showcase of Singaporean Photobooks

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Slower than scrolling on your screen, more deliberate than strolling in a gallery, a photobook demands something a digital device…

FEM: Women, Lives, and Korean Photobooks

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Rather than presenting a single narrative of womanhood, Fem brings together Korean photobooks that explore women’s lives through diverse experiences,…

10th Singapore Young Photographer Award – Finalist Showcase

08 Oct 2026 — 22 Nov 2026

About SYPA Founded by City Developments Limited (CDL) and championed by the late Mr. Kwek Leng Joo, the Singapore Young…

Singaporean Love

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Singaporean Love explores Jay Lim’s identity as a gay Singaporean man, tracing his experiences of love, intimacy, and belonging through…

Fruiting Bodies

16 Oct 2026 — 06 Dec 2026

Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies reimagines the mushroom as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor – an emergent, generative…

Lone Islands

16 Oct 2026 — 22 Nov 2026

Lone Islands has as starting point the low birth rate observed in Japan, and expands to become political, social, economical,…

Singapore Index by Tan Pin Pin

16 Oct 2026 — 31 Jan 2027

Singapore Index unveils a remarkable early body of work by acclaimed filmmaker and artist Tan Pin Pin, with the majority…

’31

16 Oct 2026 — 06 Dec 2026

’31 visualises the parallels between the interwar period and today’s socio-political landscape. Combining 3D photo objects, mixed-media tableaux, still-life images,…

Jasmine & Gasoline

16 Oct 2026 — 06 Dec 2026

Jasmine & Gasoline reimagines the cyclical pattern of descent and return in the myth of Persephone. This time, she breaks…

Shine Heroes

16 Oct 2026 — 22 Nov 2026

3,000 shoe shiners go out into the streets of La Paz and El Alto suburbs each day in search of…

How to (Un)Name a Tree

16 Oct 2026 — 06 Dec 2026

The long-term project How to (Un)Name a Tree investigates the relationship between naming, seeing, and knowledge formation through three closely…

I AM A WITNESS: Silent Witnesses, Fukushima 2011–2026

16 Oct 2026 — 22 Nov 2026

For fifteen years, I have continued to photograph the land and people living in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear…

Dear Cinema,

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Sometimes I think about how cinema suspended me and my family from reality. My family would have been very different…

Butter Melts at 36,6

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Intimacy is a profound lifeline in a world where true connection often feels elusive. It requires vulnerability, yet rewards us…

Can you keep a secret

16 Oct 2026 — 22 Nov 2026

Can you keep a secret is a long-term project focused on child sexual abuse. CSA has been running in my…

Men in Grey Suits

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

The Man in the Grey Suit: An Anthropological Study of a Species. The man in the grey suit does not…

CAVITEÑA

16 Oct 2026 — 22 Nov 2026

Through self-portraiture, CAVITEÑA stages the transgender Filipina body as both subject and witness, questioning the rules by which a place…

Departure and Return

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

I believe hometown is a collapse — a place that sends you into endless departure and eternal return. The death…

Drills & Desire

Drills & Desire imagines an alternative vision of Singapore’s mandatory military service through a queer Southeast Asian perspective. Constructing a…

My Mother Doesn’t Work

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

“My mom doesn’t work. Well, she cooks, keeps the house clean, but she hasn’t got a real job” my son…

I Still Do Not Know Him

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Set against the backdrop of China’s one-child policy, I Still Do Not Know Him is a photobook project rooted in…

Dairy for the Downwinders

16 Oct 2026 — 06 Dec 2026

In Dairy For The Downwinders, I explore my ancestors’ experience living downwind of the Nevada Test Site. Between 1951 and…

JPM

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

JPM is a posthumous collaboration with my late Algerian father, who passed away unexpectedly in Toulouse, France, in February 2022….

DEPRESSION. POSSESSION. REPRESSION.

16 Oct 2026 — 06 Dec 2026

DEPRESSION. POSSESSION. REPRESSION. explores the protective and resilient mechanisms women in my family used to survive physical imbalances and mental…

Lone Islands

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Lone Islands has as starting point the low birth rate observed in Japan, and expands to become political, social, economical,…

Chester: Staring Down the White Gaze

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Chester: Staring Down the White Gaze is a collaborative project that examines how whiteness operates within American visual culture. Through…

Glimmers, Feathers and Staring Skies

16 Oct 2026 — 06 Dec 2026

Hummingbirds are the only birds capable of flying backwards; their suspended motion mirrors the process of grief, moving into the…

In the Space Between

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

We do not grow close in spite of the mess, but through it. This project unfolds within a newly renovated…

Standby mode

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

This project is my inside view, an attempt to convey how uncertainty and fear become part of my reality. This…

Bed Checks

16 Oct 2026 — 22 Nov 2026

Bed Checks is an authentic look inside one of the hundreds of thousands of relationships affected, and endangered, by the…

When Spring Never Comes

16 Oct 2026 — 22 Nov 2026

“You never had those yellow slippers,” my mother says, so firmly that my memory begins to feel betrayed. Yet I…

Bunga dan Tembok

16 Oct 2026 — 22 Nov 2026

In my home country Malaysia, stateless people are one of the most discriminated groups. Despite being born here, they are…

Cusp

16 Oct 2026 — 06 Dec 2026

Cusp is a visual inquiry into the cyclical cosmic rhythm held in women’s bodies, and the palpable transitions felt with…

Ma’Nene

16 Oct 2026 — 22 Nov 2026

For the Toraja people, death isn’t seen as the end but as a continuation of the bond between the living…

We Were Farmers

16 Oct 2026 — 06 Dec 2026

We Were Farmers is a 12-year photographic project documenting my family’s journey as farmers in Singapore, from the 1960s until…

I N S C T S

16 Oct 2026 — 06 Dec 2026

I N S C T S is a long-term project exploring how insect farming unfolds within extractivism, waste ecologies, the…

Delicious & Healthy Memories

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

This project explores the distortions of memory through photographs of domestic celebrations in the USSR. The book is based on…

The Water is Wide

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Ashes and fire fluttering and disappearing into the wind; dust and earth intertwining and rolling in the water. The elements…

10th SIPF Open Call Portfolio Showcase 2026

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

At the heart of SIPF’s programming lies the Portfolio Open Call Showcase, a cornerstone of the festival that has, across…

Dead fishes and praying Mantis

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Dead Fishes and Praying Mantis is a collaborative multimedia project by Ghanaian-German artist Calvin Hein and Ghanaian photographer Kay Kwabia…

37.2°C

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Normal human body temperature ranges from 36 to 37 degrees; 37 degrees serves as the threshold for thermal sensation. For…

Notation(s)

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Notation(s) is a limited-edition artist’s book of 100 copies that traces how the artist organizes and understands her sensations and…

Elephant in the room

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Elephant in the Room invites us into a world suspended between two realities. In this body of work, artist Bharat…

Dear Parents, Please send me more Bacon and Pervitin

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Power, intoxication, and control – this dangerous connection runs through history and is still highly relevant today. In Uschi Groos…

Jonokuchi – At the Threshold

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Shiretoko Peninsula, 2022. From 2018 onward, a brown bear repeatedly entered residential areas over a period of four years, attacking…

Before Boom!

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

BEFORE BOOM! is a still image album between photography and animation, which describes a linear story taking place in three…

The end’s approach comes over my mind as clouds cover the light

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

After my father was diagnosed with an incurable illness some years ago, I took photographs of him regularly. I took…

Skinship

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

“Skinship” is a widely used term in Japan describing the skin-to-skin, heart-to-heart bond between a mother and child, as well…

Ripples In The Pond

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

In Ripples in the Pond, Bharat Sikka undertakes a nuanced exploration of Makharda, a peripheral township on the outskirts of…

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

“At the end of 2019, during a residency in Northeast China, I spent my time driving along the Yalu River….

Belly of The Giant Serpent: Prophecy

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Belly of The Giant Serpent: Prophecy is a work concealed beneath the masks of fiction and the supernatural, which metaphorically…

The Aesthetics of Shipbuilding

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

A decade-long body of work by photographer Jo Choonman, documenting shipyards across Korea, is brought together in The Aesthetics of…

(De)Compositions

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Comprising a series of iconic street photographs recast as guerilla street posters – and later rephotographed as they decayed on…

Make Me Beautiful

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

I grew up witnessing the burgeoning cosmetic surgery industry, surrounded by judgements about my own appearance, feeling a strong connection…

(Inter)faces of Predictions

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

In his project Inter(Faces) of Predictions, which received the C/O Talent Award, Sheung Yiu examines how faces are used across…

Faërie

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

ZHOU Yang’s photographic monographs Faërie was published by Posts & Telecom Press in China in September 2025. The book includes…

Transitus Naturalis

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

 Transitus Naturalis is a photo book that explores the transformations of the landscape over time, revealing its transition to landscaping…

Becoming Parents

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

“Becoming a parent is not only about joy, happiness, love, and fulfillment. It can also trigger anger, despair, exhaustion, fear,…

We Came For Games

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

We Came for Games is a humanist project that advocates equality, respect and solidarity between people and cultures. This artist’s…

Search Engine

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Search Engine – of which this book is a reproduction – is a series of ‘catalogue cards’ featuring photographs sourced…

Where the Yuan Weaves the Orchid

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

“Where the Yuan weaves the orchid,” “Yuan Zhi Li Lan” in mandarin, comes from THE SONGS OF CHU, “The Lady…

Mixed

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Mixed is a vivid and inquisitive exploration of identity by Norwegian artist Dev Dhunsi, whose mixed heritage forms the book’s…

Waterworks: The Hidden Water System of New York

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Waterworks, an exploration of New York City’s water supply and wastewater treatment systems, is a new and expanded edition of…

Rattus Sapiens

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

“Rattus Sapience—“the intelligent rat”—is a project by Maryia Karneyenka, whose title instantly evokes associations with modern human civilization. It conveys…

Fruiting Bodies

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies reimagines the mushroom as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor – an emergent, generative…

A Kind of Magic

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

A Kind of Magic examines photography as a space where memory, absence, and imagination converge. The project approaches the photographic…

10th SIPF Open Call Photobook Showcase 2026

16 Oct 2026 — 29 Nov 2026

The 10th SIPF Open Call Photobook Showcase celebrates the photobook as a living platform for image-makers, a medium where personal,…