“I simultaneously feel deeply at home in this country and like
a perpetual stranger to a strange and bizarre land.” - Jeff Jacobson
Here today, gone tomorrow. In our rapidly changing landscape, heritage
is often sacrificed for progress. Panoramic Singapore is a series of images
by Tay Kay Chin that documents a side of Singapore that we often see but
rarely notice – until they vanish.
Offered a job at a U.S. newspaper in 2001 and posed with the possibility
of leaving Singapore for the long term, Kay Chin was driven by an urgency
to remember and document life in Singapore the way he knew it. Working
in the tradition of street photography and in the panoramic format, Kay
Chin’s images capture daily moments relevant to any Singaporean.
There will be 25 images on display, most of them made using the Hasselblad
XPan between February to May 2001.
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| About Tay Kay Chin
Tay Kay Chin is a 2003 Hasselblad Master based in Singapore. After receiving
his journalism degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia, he joined
The Straits Times as a photographer in 1993, before becoming its Picture
Editor in 1999. From July to September 2001, he was the Presentation Editor
of the Sun newspaper in Bremerton, Washington.
Kay Chin's works are collected by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Singapore,
the European House of Photography in Paris, and private collectors. His
works can be viewed at www.eastpix.com
and www.singlish.org.
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