Image After Image: Material, Memory, Machine brings together Chow Chee Yong, Jonathan Liu, Ernest Wu, Aik Beng Chia and Gilles…

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

What happens when photographs come together rather than stand alone? Systems of Seeing brings together eight Singapore artists who explore…

Join award-winning lens-based artist and AI expert Boris Eldagsen for the provocative keynote, RIVALS – Photography vs. Promptography. Moving beyond…

What do photographs remember, and what do we ask them to remember for us? The Stories We Carry explores memory…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Acclaimed lens-based artist Boris Eldagsen leads this half-day masterclass session examining the evolution of modern image-making. His four-hour workshop, Visual…

Established during the festival’s debut in 2008, the Portfolio Review remains a fundamental cornerstone of SIPF.  Designed to facilitate professional…

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

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

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

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

The Colony – Archive purports to be an archive of picture postcards depicting a single botanical garden. In actuality, these…

Archives preserve histories, but they also contain silences, omissions and traces of the systems that created them. After the Archive…

Eastern Promise is a series that examines how colonial photography has shaped, and continues to shape, the perception and understanding…

In Circles brings together ten artist practices that explore photography as a space for speculation, imagination and circulation. Moving between…

Identity is never fixed. It is shaped and reshaped through relationships, memory, desire and cultural expectations. States of Becoming brings…

Where We Stand explores place as a living, shifting terrain shaped by development, labour, consumption, memory, identity and movement. Through…

Photo-Audio walk along site-specific installations hidden away in Geylang with Dorothy Wong Ka Chung & Benjamin Ryser. Is home to…

What do we carry with us from one life, generation or place to another? What We Carry Forward explores memory…

Calling out all local and international publishers, artists, collectives and creatives who are interested in selling printed matter or merchandise…

In celebration of the expansive landscape of image-making and independent publishing, SIPF presents the 10th edition of Photo Market – a…

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

Moderated by Daniel Boetker-Smith (Australia), speakers include Ang Song Nian (Singapore) and Shi Zhen (China/France), this panel uses photography and…

Asia Meet seeks to facilitate global connection by bridging the gap between photographic practitioners and industry experts across borders. In…

Acclaimed filmmaker Tan Pin Pin joins SIPF Festival Director & Curator, Gwen Lee, for an intimate enquiry into a career…

Photography, evidence and other ways of knowing the environment. Moderated by Mary Ann Lim (Singapore), join artists Robert Zhao Renhui…

Get to meet and engage with the finalists of SIPF2026’s Portfolio Open Call through this intimate dialogue session. The session…

Join Dr Lydia Wong-Plain, Goh Sze Ying, Iola Lenzi & Zulkhairi Zulkiflee in this dialogue that asks what it might mean for Southeast Asian photography to…

Where can your photographic work go next? This workshop invites participants to step back from an ongoing project, examine their…

The Photobook Clinic offers a focused three-hour session dedicated to refining photobook dummies, led by Shi Zhen of La Maison…

Want to know more about the works shortlisted for the 10th SIPF Open Call Showcase? Come join us as we…