This year’s Open Call theme, Departing and Arriving seeks to connect to the heart of Singapore as a young nation…

At the end of the 19th century, thanks to the silk trade, numerous women in Southern China became financially independent….

Loose Relations brings together within a singular presentation the filmic and photographic works of Sherman Ong. The presentation comprises the…

Afterlife is the sixth chapter of Vasantha Yogananthan’s long-term project A Myth of Two Souls inspired by the epic tale The Ramayana. Drawing inspiration…

Shuchi Kapoor Chennai Photo Biennale Foundation http://www.chennaiphotobiennale.com/ About the Reviewer Shuchi Kapoor is a documentary photojournalist from India and one…

How can we continue to converse ideas across borders to keep the international artistic dialogue dynamic? #SIPF2020’s Asia Meet: Portfolio…

Alejandro Castellote Independent Curator About the Reviewer In 1982, Alejandro Castellote began working as photography curator. From 1985 through 1996…

Beate Cegielska Galleri Image http://www.galleriimage.dk About the Reviewer  “As a reviewer, I am interested in seeing contemporary art works made…

Erik Vroons GUP Magazine http://gupmagazine.com About the Reviewer Erik Vroons (1976, The Netherlands) is Editor-at-large for GUP, the international platform…

Fiona Sweet Ballarat International Foto Biennale http://www.ballaratfoto.org About the Reviewer  A prominent and highly respected arts director and curator, Fiona…

Gwen Lee DECK https://deck.sg About the Reviewer Gwen Lee is the Director and co-founder of the Singapore International Photography Festival…

He Yining Independent Curator, Writer and Researcher http://www.heyining.com About the Reviewer He Yining (1986), researcher, writer and curator of photographic…

Holly Roussell http://www.hollyroussell.com About the Reviewer Holly Roussell (容思玉) Born 1989, Vermont, United States. Lives and works between China and…

Ihiro Hayami T3 Photo Festival Tokyo http://www.tip.or.jp About the Reviewer Ihiro Hayami (b. 1982, Osaka Japan) is the founder of…

Jean-Baptiste Henimann Agence VU’ http://www.agencevu.com About the Reviewer After a master’s degree in research in semiology and analysis of media…

Katya Guerrero Pioneer Studios/ Luzviminda: Archive of Philippine Photography http://www.pioneerstudios.ph About the Review Katya Guerrero is the founder of Luzviminda:…

Jenny Lindhe Landskrona Foto https://www.landskronafoto.org/en About the Reviewer Jenny Lindhe has a background in fine-art photography and works as a…

Kim Jeong Eun IANN / The Reference Soul http://www.the-ref.kr About the Reviewer Jeong Eun Kim is editor-in-chief of IANN, the…

Lee Wei-I Voices of Photography http://www.vopmagazine.com About the Reviewer  Lee Wei-I started out his career as a journalist. He founded…

Louis Ho About the Reviewer Louis Ho is an independent curator and critic. He has lectured at the National Institute…

Louise Fedotov-Clements http://www.formatfestival.com http://www.derbyquad.co.uk About the Reviewer Louise Fedotov-Clements is Artistic Director, QUAD & Director, FORMAT International Photography Festival. Louise…

Maarten Schilt Schilt Publishing & Gallery www.schiltpublishing.com About the Reviewer Schilt Publishing is a publishing house directed to high profile…

Melanie Pocock Ikon Gallery https://www.ikon-gallery.org About the Reviewer Melanie Pocock is Curator at Ikon Gallery. Together with Director Jonathan Watkins,…

Miho Odaka Curator and Educator About the Reviewer Miho Odaka moved to the U.K. after graduating from Sophia University’s Department…

Moshe Rosenzveig Head On Photo Festival https://www.headon.com.au About the Reviewer Moshe is the founder, creative director & lead curator of…

Mutsuko Ota IMA magazine https://imaonline.jp About the Reviewer Born in Tokyo, 1968, she started her career as an editor at…

Natasha Egan Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago http://mocp.org About the Reviewer Since 2011, Natasha Egan has served…

Sam I-Shan Curator About the Reviewer Sam I-shan is a curator at National Gallery Singapore, working on modern and contemporary…

Sebastian Arthur Hau Polycopies & Catawiki http://polycopies.org About the Reviewer Sebastian Arthur Hau born in Germany, 1976. With 20 Years…

Silke Schmickl http://www.sissikaplan.com About the Reviewer Silke Schmickl is currently a curator at National Gallery Singapore. She was previously curator…

Steven Evans FotoFest http://www.fotofest.org About the Reviewer Steven Evans is a curator, writer, and executive director of the award-winning arts…

Tan Siu Li About the Reviewer Tan Siuli has over a decade of curatorial experience with a focus on contemporary…

Ute Noll UNO ART SPACE – UTE NOLL, UTE NOLL VISUAL PROJECTS, DU MAGZINE http://www.unoartspace.com http://www.utenoll.com About the Reviewer Ute…

Xavier Soule VU’ https://galerievu.com About the Reviewer Xavier SOULE is the CEO of Abvent Group, which includes VU’ Gallery, the…

Yoichi Nagata Fraction Magazine Japan http://fractionmagazinejapan.asia About the Reviewer Yoichi Nagata (born in Tokyo), is the co-founder and Editor in…

Yumi Goto will lead a 6-day masterclass focusing on the process of storytelling. Through exploring ways to incorporate personal experience…

Inside Out Project travelled to The Substation, Singapore’s first independent contemporary arts centre, in November. The photobooth captured 88 participants…

When Japanese photographer Miki Hasegawa (b. 1973) found out 350 children across her country die annually due to domestic abuse,…

The core concept of 335 Days is about the feeling experience of “black.” These images describe the living status and…

A Convenient Sunset | A Convenient Holdup is the Open Call 2020 Winning Portfolio. “There are approximately 10,268 7-Eleven stores…

In this series of 30 constructed self-portraits Moreno responds to found texts on gay and queer hook-up sites. The artist…

In 2009, on a foggy morning, in a nameless mountain, I was feeling the tranquility of the environment The rising…

My father was a bit plump, he looked grumpy and didn’t laugh much in front of me. As time passed…

Castle of Innocence is a tale that questions the narratives and myths that shape our perception of protection, violence, and…

Since late 2019, a pandemics has taken the world by storm, forced billions of people into lockdown and is profoundly…

Flesh and Bloody Weaknesses is the acquirement of infinitesimal seconds and fleeting moments and the containment of time perpetually in…

This is a story of Fumiko Yamato, a Japanese dancer. Though highly acclaimed both domestically and internationally, she has long…

Being brought up in a closed and conservative society, I was taught that conversations on our sex, sexuality, body, period…

In this work, we will be meeting Hannya. And Namanari. And possibly Hashi-Hime. Masks of angry spirits that emerge from…

The neoliberal process in China brought tremendous changes to society — including the massive layoff in the 1990s and early…

Mould is a reflective documentation of the artist’s struggle with toxic shame, the internalised selfdegradation that are often ignored or…

Hundred Daughters Hundred Patience Hundred Meals reconfigures Kevin WY Lee’s 2019 photobook of the same title within a home setting….

Local folklore are symbolic myths are passed down from generation to generation, it is evidential that they affect how people…

Empires, by their very nature, embody, institutionalize difference, both between metropolis/colony and between colonial subjects Imperial imaginary floods popular culture….

Mélaina Cholé, from Ancient Greek µέλας (melas), and χολή (kholé), is a photographic exploration of humoral theory conceived by Hippocrates….

Telik is a common name for TV that emerged as first TVs became available in Soviet Union. The acquisition of…

I’ll always be here for you is a body of work that stemmed from my struggle with self-harm. Making this…

Miti Ruangkritya (1981) is based in Thailand. His work focuses on an issue or a topic surrounding his life. In…

David Billet and Ian Kline made the pictures in Rabbit / Hare on a road trip to Texas. And right…

“In 2046, nothing changes and no one knows if it’s true or not because nobody has come back” Extracted from…

Centralia is SIPF 2020’s Published Photobook Winner. Centralia is an Indian docu-fiction that journeys deep into the forests of central…

It Can Be Better is a meditation centred around the impact of perfectionistic living habits. It seeks to illustrate how…

Entangled encapsulates a pivotal moment for Maude Arsenault’s work, representing a shift in perspective and personal responsibility. “After years dedicated…

Anni Leppälä’s motives derive from memories, loss, longing, and early adolescence, seeking for an experience of connection and closeness but…

Infrastructures is a research-based photo project about the Russian and post-Soviet political economy, created in 2016-2019 by Sergey Novikov and…

Following the path of Charles Kroehle, a pioneering nineteenth-century photographer who supposedly disappeared in the Peruvian Amazon, Arguiñe Escandón and…

The Hotel infers an in-between place of stay during transit. To the artist, it also implies relational, historical and identical…

In July 2015, MAKIKO was granted rare permission to photograph the restricted zone of Battleship Island, which used to be…

Beyond the Mountains is SIPF 2020’s Dummy Photobook Winner. Located 500 kilometers away from the Tokyo metropolitan area, the disposal…

‘China Dream’ explores the fractured identity of the second generation diaspora as they’re straddled their birth country and their motherland….

The book speaks to the turning point in the history of Ukraine, that touched the whole world, the Ukrainian revolution…

In Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light visual metaphors are beautifully woven together, addressing challenging concepts such…

Dear Japanese is a photo-documentary centred on Miyuki Okuyama’s research into the  descendants of Indo-European women and Japanese men, who…

AOSTABELLOSGUARDO – HYSTEROS+PALLIUM We live only once, it is said, and while we live we born and we die who…