Events

SIPF Open Call Showcase 2020
This year’s Open Call theme, Departing and Arriving seeks to connect to the heart of Singapore as a young nation…

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

Margins: drawing pictures of home
When does one recount or trace the beginning of a story? At what moment does the questioning or the search…

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

The Amazing ABC of Photography
The alphabet is reinvented in this display of critically acclaimed photographers exploring new notions of the age-old teaching tool for…

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

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

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

Dear Japanese (2012 – 2018)
Dear Japanese is a photo-documentary centred on Miyuki Okuyama’s research into the descendants of Indo-European women and Japanese men, who…

Memory Blocks (2009—ongoing)
Since 2009, Bob Lee has been documenting HDB homes in Singapore. These public housing units, sometimes derisively referred to as…

Investigation of Love
Investigation of Love was a project inspired by the artist’s personal experience in applying for a Dutch residence permit, where…

String Theory – Sewing Space
String Theory – Sewing Space presents two existing works from the artist – White Uniform and The Women of Empire…

Anything, but Transparent
Anything, but Transparent is a tongue-in-cheek title extracted from Massot’s writing on photography, and a reference to the dominant exhibition…

SGscenery2020
SGscenery2020 follows a project conceptualised by the artist for Singapore’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, ‘SG50’, in 2015 titled Scenery. Featuring “crowd-sourced”…

孤岛 (Gu Dao: Lonely Island)
In 1955, more than 3000 landlords, wealthy farmers, counterrevolutionaries, right-wing politicians, and intellectuals, were sent to Gu Dao for re-education….

JAKARTA, modest interventions and minor improvisations
Jakarta is one of the biggest and fastest growing cities in the world with over thirty million people living in…

Drowned and Talcum
The photographic series Drowned and Talcum entails Seba Kurtis’ responses to two incidents where refugees lost their lives amidst the…

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

Afterlife
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…

KASSEL DUMMY AWARD 2020
The KASSEL DUMMY AWARD is the dummy competition for the best unpublished photobook mock-up of the year organised by the…

Phases
Every educational institute is a revolving door – the Singapore Management University (SMU) welcomes and sends off more than 1800…

Rediscovering Lost Connections
The Silvana S. Foundation Commission Award. The SIPF and Silvana S Foundation are excited to share that the jury members…

Rimba
Indigenous peoples have been represented in the history of photography as objects of aesthetic or anthropological study, nullifying their individuality…

Singapore Young Photographer Award 2020
Presented by City Developments Limited (CDL) since 2005, the Singapore Young Photographer Award (SYPA) is a national award that aims…