A photography exhibition featuring works by emerging Singaporean photographers.

Jun 26 to Jul 9

Night and Day Gallery
139C Selegie Road (4th floor)
Mon - Sat, 12pm - 10pm (closed for lunch from 1pm - 2pm)
Admission is free.

For more information, visit www.mopasia.com.sg

Month of Photography (MoP), the annual Singapore-based photography festival, returns in 2008 with the theme of ‘Still/Moving: Photography & Cinema’.

In its sixth year, an annual component of the Festival is Out of Focus, an exhibition aimed at presenting new photography talent in Singapore. Out of Focus 2008 presents the works of four emerging photographers: Geoffrey Pakiam, Gozde Zehnder, Ng Sze Kiat and Chen Shi Han. It is curated by Objectifs - Centre for Photography.

Geoffrey Pakiam in Surveillance takes a critical look into our Orwellian landscape, where nothing escapes scrutiny. But yet, the pervasiveness of reality television and tabloid fodder in today's media landscape makes us question the line between curious voyeurism and state sanctioned security - the blur between cinema/photography and real life. Gozde Zehnder, a Turkish filmmaker and photographer based in Singapore, on the other hand, wears whimsical glasses to look at her surroundings. For her, images, both moving and still, are a way of exploration and reconciliation with foreign environments. She chooses to create her art with the 'traditional' medium of transparencies, film and Super 8 film, emphasizing an innocence and purity that is void of digital manipulation. Ng Sze Kiat's images, reminiscent of film noir, speak of a yearning. A photographer/filmmaker, his photos become static versions of cinematic scenes, as viewers are left to wonder - what happens before and after the still. Finally, Chen Shi Han plays with the simple idea of toys coming to life at night. In the glare of a table light, we begin to believe that a world war is taking place around a table-top and book - the power of imagination simply the basis of all images.