9th SIPF Portfolio Showcase 2024
The SIPF Open Call is a cornerstone programme of the festival, operating independently of the festival’s theme. Its goal is to discover new and innovative works in image-making and photography from the global arts community. For this edition, SIPF received 638 portfolio submissions from 61 countries, with 21 portfolios shortlisted. The 21 selected portfolios will be exhibited at two locations over the festival period: Selegie Arts Centre and the National Library.
The works featured in the 9th SIPF Portfolio Showcase were selected by this year’s jury members – Adele Tan [SG], Louise Fedotov-Clements [UK], Gwen Lee [SG], Serubiri Moses [US], Wimo Ambala Bayang [ID], Sunyoung Kim [KR], Seok Jaehyun [KR] and Tanvi Mishra [IN].
9th SIPF Best Portfolio Award 2024
BLACK SNAFU by André Ramos-Woodard
“Each generation must out of relative obscurity discover its mission, fulfill it, or betray it. In underdeveloped countries the preceding…
18 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
“Loneliness, roaming youths, violence and predators. We were wild nocturnals in the dark, warm nights. Summer left quickly and before…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
In the southeastern region of Guizhou, there are numerous ethnic minorities, with the Miao people being predominant. Surrounded by mountains…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
I have been photographing my younger sister Masantu for over ten years. I started taking it seriously when she expressed…
18 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
“Trailblazers” is an inquiry into Egypt’s feminist history through socially engaged self-portraiture and performance, integrated with public archives to forge…
18 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
After eight years of living apart, Riti Sengupta moved in with her parents at the onset of the pandemic. Upon…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
Our connections to our ancestors and our descendants often feel stronger than connections to those around us. I often wish…
18 Oct 2024 — 10 Nov 2024
“The Oriental Scene” investigates the concept of Chinoiserie architecture in the UK in the context of de-colonialism. The project uses…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
My name is Sasha, and I’m a political exile from Belarus. In my homeland, a repressive dictatorship prevails, suppressing freedom…
18 Oct 2024 — 10 Nov 2024
By utilising glitches in photography and the image-making process of Jacquard Weave, Save as Text employs weaving as a form…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
It took me many years to notice at quieter moments when no one was listening, she would sing. Simple tunes…
18 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
My dad cries a lot these days. Any sad movie never made him cry before. He didn’t cry when our…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
Alongside the projects I stubbornly pursued surrounding airports — “Unnamed Land: Air Port City” (2013-2020), “Night Spotting” (2015-2016) and “Myrtle…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
The power of icons has consistently fascinated and perplexed artists. It has also challenged them to offer a different narrative…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
“In the Catholic church there are three classes of relics. The first class is body parts of a saint. The…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
“The Fish Dies By Its Mouth / El pez muere por la boca” reflects on the resilience and resistance of…
18 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
These series of works, titled “Confrontation of The Absent Hero,” is rooted in a profound childhood memory that has influenced…
Anti-Blackness seems inescapably mixed into whatever context I place it into; literature, science, government, health, art… look into any “field”…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
In New York, Times Square attracts so many different people from all over the place. This area gives me illusions…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
Pasolini in his pseudo-documentary Appunti per un Orestiade Africane (1970) radicalises an aesthetic of the unfinished characterised by the desire…
23 Oct 2024 — 24 Nov 2024
On February 24, 2022, my homeland started the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. To understand where the roots of such aggression…