Across 2022 -2023, the artists documented the change in the countrywide street lighting from orange sodium vapour lamps to white LED bulbs. Intrigued by how invisible this momentous end of an era technological change can be; they realised a sense of mourning of the subtle changes we experienced in city living.

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Adar Ng and Dave Lim’s Out in Plain Night is presented at the 10th Singapore International Photography Festival as part of Shifting Images: Photography from Singapore 2000–2025, under In Circles.