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[Closed] 10th SIPF Open Call 2026
The Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) is opening the call for image-based works and photobook publications for its 10th biennale…
[Closed] Call for Exhibitors: 10th SIPF Photo Market 2026
Calling out all local and international publishers, artists, collectives and creatives who are interested in selling printed matter or merchandise…
10th SIPF Open Call Photobook Showcase 2026
The 10th SIPF Open Call Photobook Showcase celebrates the photobook as a living platform for image-makers, a medium where personal,…
A Kind of Magic
A Kind of Magic examines photography as a space where memory, absence, and imagination converge. The project approaches the photographic…
Fruiting Bodies
Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies reimagines the mushroom as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor – an emergent, generative…
Rattus Sapiens
“Rattus Sapience—“the intelligent rat”—is a project by Maryia Karneyenka, whose title instantly evokes associations with modern human civilization. It conveys…
Waterworks: The Hidden Water System of New York
Waterworks, an exploration of New York City’s water supply and wastewater treatment systems, is a new and expanded edition of…
Mixed
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
“Where the Yuan weaves the orchid,” “Yuan Zhi Li Lan” in mandarin, comes from THE SONGS OF CHU, “The Lady…
Search Engine
Search Engine – of which this book is a reproduction – is a series of ‘catalogue cards’ featuring photographs sourced…
We Came For Games
We Came for Games is a humanist project that advocates equality, respect and solidarity between people and cultures. This artist’s…
Becoming Parents
“Becoming a parent is not only about joy, happiness, love, and fulfillment. It can also trigger anger, despair, exhaustion, fear,…
Transitus Naturalis
Transitus Naturalis is a photo book that explores the transformations of the landscape over time, revealing its transition to landscaping…
Faërie
ZHOU Yang’s photographic monographs Faërie was published by Posts & Telecom Press in China in September 2025. The book includes…
(Inter)faces of Predictions
In his project Inter(Faces) of Predictions, which received the C/O Talent Award, Sheung Yiu examines how faces are used across…
Make Me Beautiful
I grew up witnessing the burgeoning cosmetic surgery industry, surrounded by judgements about my own appearance, feeling a strong connection…
(De)Compositions
Comprising a series of iconic street photographs recast as guerilla street posters – and later rephotographed as they decayed on…
The Aesthetics of Shipbuilding
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
Belly of The Giant Serpent: Prophecy is a work concealed beneath the masks of fiction and the supernatural, which metaphorically…
Shine On You Crazy Diamond
“At the end of 2019, during a residency in Northeast China, I spent my time driving along the Yalu River….
Ripples In The Pond
In Ripples in the Pond, Bharat Sikka undertakes a nuanced exploration of Makharda, a peripheral township on the outskirts of…
Skinship
“Skinship” is a widely used term in Japan describing the skin-to-skin, heart-to-heart bond between a mother and child, as well…
The end’s approach comes over my mind as clouds cover the light
After my father was diagnosed with an incurable illness some years ago, I took photographs of him regularly. I took…
Before Boom!
BEFORE BOOM! is a still image album between photography and animation, which describes a linear story taking place in three…
Jonokuchi – At the Threshold
Shiretoko Peninsula, 2022. From 2018 onward, a brown bear repeatedly entered residential areas over a period of four years, attacking…
Dear Parents, Please send me more Bacon and Pervitin
Power, intoxication, and control – this dangerous connection runs through history and is still highly relevant today. In Uschi Groos…
Elephant in the room
Elephant in the Room invites us into a world suspended between two realities. In this body of work, artist Bharat…
Notation(s)
Notation(s) is a limited-edition artist’s book of 100 copies that traces how the artist organizes and understands her sensations and…
37.2°C
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
Dead Fishes and Praying Mantis is a collaborative multimedia project by Ghanaian-German artist Calvin Hein and Ghanaian photographer Kay Kwabia…
10th SIPF Open Call Portfolio Showcase 2026
At the heart of SIPF’s programming lies the Portfolio Open Call Showcase, a cornerstone of the festival that has, across…
The Water is Wide
Ashes and fire fluttering and disappearing into the wind; dust and earth intertwining and rolling in the water. The elements…
Delicious & Healthy Memories
This project explores the distortions of memory through photographs of domestic celebrations in the USSR. The book is based on…
I N S C T S
I N S C T S is a long-term project exploring how insect farming unfolds within extractivism, waste ecologies, the…
We Were Farmers
We Were Farmers is a 12-year photographic project documenting my family’s journey as farmers in Singapore, from the 1960s until…
Ma’Nene
For the Toraja people, death isn’t seen as the end but as a continuation of the bond between the living…
Cusp
Cusp is a visual inquiry into the cyclical cosmic rhythm held in women’s bodies, and the palpable transitions felt with…
Bunga dan Tembok
In my home country Malaysia, stateless people are one of the most discriminated groups. Despite being born here, they are…
When Spring Never Comes
“You never had those yellow slippers,” my mother says, so firmly that my memory begins to feel betrayed. Yet I…
Bed Checks
Bed Checks is an authentic look inside one of the hundreds of thousands of relationships affected, and endangered, by the…
Standby mode
This project is my inside view, an attempt to convey how uncertainty and fear become part of my reality. This…
In the Space Between
We do not grow close in spite of the mess, but through it. This project unfolds within a newly renovated…
Glimmers, Feathers and Staring Skies
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
Chester: Staring Down the White Gaze is a collaborative project that examines how whiteness operates within American visual culture. Through…
Lone Islands
Lone Islands has as starting point the low birth rate observed in Japan, and expands to become political, social, economical,…
DEPRESSION. POSSESSION. REPRESSION.
DEPRESSION. POSSESSION. REPRESSION. explores the protective and resilient mechanisms women in my family used to survive physical imbalances and mental…
JPM
JPM is a posthumous collaboration with my late Algerian father, who passed away unexpectedly in Toulouse, France, in February 2022….
Dairy for the Downwinders
In Dairy For The Downwinders, I explore my ancestors’ experience living downwind of the Nevada Test Site. Between 1951 and…
I Still Do Not Know Him
Set against the backdrop of China’s one-child policy, I Still Do Not Know Him is a photobook project rooted in…
My Mother Doesn’t Work
“My mom doesn’t work. Well, she cooks, keeps the house clean, but she hasn’t got a real job” my son…
Drills & Desire
Drills & Desire imagines an alternative vision of Singapore’s mandatory military service through a queer Southeast Asian perspective. Constructing a…
Departure and Return
I believe hometown is a collapse — a place that sends you into endless departure and eternal return. The death…
CAVITEÑA
Through self-portraiture, CAVITEÑA stages the transgender Filipina body as both subject and witness, questioning the rules by which a place…
Men in Grey Suits
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
Can you keep a secret is a long-term project focused on child sexual abuse. CSA has been running in my…
Butter Melts at 36,6
Intimacy is a profound lifeline in a world where true connection often feels elusive. It requires vulnerability, yet rewards us…
Dear Cinema,
Sometimes I think about how cinema suspended me and my family from reality. My family would have been very different…
I AM A WITNESS: Silent Witnesses, Fukushima 2011–2026
For fifteen years, I have continued to photograph the land and people living in the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear…
How to (Un)Name a Tree
The long-term project How to (Un)Name a Tree investigates the relationship between naming, seeing, and knowledge formation through three closely…
Shine Heroes
3,000 shoe shiners go out into the streets of La Paz and El Alto suburbs each day in search of…
Jasmine & Gasoline
Jasmine & Gasoline reimagines the cyclical pattern of descent and return in the myth of Persephone. This time, she breaks…
’31
’31 visualises the parallels between the interwar period and today’s socio-political landscape. Combining 3D photo objects, mixed-media tableaux, still-life images,…
Singapore Index by Tan Pin Pin
Singapore Index unveils a remarkable early body of work by acclaimed filmmaker and artist Tan Pin Pin, with the majority…
Lone Islands
Lone Islands has as starting point the low birth rate observed in Japan, and expands to become political, social, economical,…
Fruiting Bodies
Ying Ang’s Fruiting Bodies reimagines the mushroom as both a biological form and a feminist metaphor – an emergent, generative…
Singaporean Love
Singaporean Love explores Jay Lim’s identity as a gay Singaporean man, tracing his experiences of love, intimacy, and belonging through…
10th Singapore Young Photographer Award – Finalist Showcase
About SYPA Founded by City Developments Limited (CDL) and championed by the late Mr. Kwek Leng Joo, the Singapore Young…
Photobook Clinic with Shi Zhen
The Photobook Clinic offers a focused three-hour session dedicated to refining photobook dummies, led by Shi Zhen of La Maison…
Creative Practice, Platforms & Resources by Monica Allende
Where can your photographic work go next? This workshop invites participants to step back from an ongoing project, examine their…
VISUAL DIRECTION THROUGH LANGUAGE – Image Editing with Generative AI by Boris Eldagsen
Acclaimed lens-based artist Boris Eldagsen leads this half-day masterclass session examining the evolution of modern image-making. His four-hour workshop, Visual…
AsiaMeet: Portfolio Review 2026
Established during the festival’s debut in 2008, the Portfolio Review remains a fundamental cornerstone of SIPF. Designed to facilitate professional…
Asia Meet: 10th SIPF Photo Market 2026
In celebration of the expansive landscape of image-making and independent publishing, Asia Meet presents Photo Market – a dedicated two-day…
RIVALS – Photography vs. Promptography Keynote by Boris Eldagsen
Join award-winning lens-based artist and AI expert Boris Eldagsen for the provocative keynote, RIVALS – Photography vs. Promptography. Moving beyond…
Thinking through photographic representation and image equity in Singapore
What does representation mean, and for whom? By thinking within the parameters of the photographic medium, this seminar unravels the…
Between Tongues: A Glossary of Ghosts
This seminar-workshop opens with ghost stories and superstitions as starting points, asking what photographic and critical vocabulary the region already…
FEM: Women, Lives, and Korean Photobooks
Rather than presenting a single narrative of womanhood, Fem brings together Korean photobooks that explore women’s lives through diverse experiences,…