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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 is a long-term project exploring how insect farming unfolds within extractivism, waste ecologies, the…

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