Before it All Goes by Darren Soh – People’s Park Complex
People’s Park Complex was featured at Darren Soh’s solo exhibition, which was held at Objectifs from August – September 2018. This exhibition presented images of eight iconic sites from Singapore’s early independence years that are now getting demolished and redeveloped. The eight sites are: Pearl Bank Apartments, People’s Park Complex, Golden Mile Complex, Golden Mile Tower, Bedok and Buona Vista Swimming Complexes, Queenstown Cinema, Tanglin Halt Estate and Rochor Centre.
About Darren Soh
Darren Soh’s photographic practice explores architecture, urban landscape and space. An established photographer who is most recognised for his documentation of vernacular architecture, Darren has been placed in several international photography awards over the years, including the Commonwealth Photographic Awards, the Prix de la Photographie, Paris, the International Photography Awards, PDN and ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu. His works have been shown widely, including solo exhibitions at The Esplanade and Objectifs (Singapore Art Week 2015), and internationally at photography festivals like Noorderlicht (The Netherlands) and Obscura (Penang). He has published several monographs including While You Were Sleeping (2004), For My Son (2015) and In the Still of the Night (2016).
Darren was one of the co-founders of Platform.sg, an initiative to showcase photography of Singapore or by Singaporean photographers. As champions of local photography, Platform.sg has gone on to support and publish 22 Singapore photography books and most recently, an exhibition of 34 Singaporean photographers in Istanbul (Apr-May 2018). He continues to advocate for photography as an art form, and contributes actively to the community through frequent public talks and ground up projects that focus on documenting Singapore.
Before it All Goes by Darren Soh – 82 Commonwealth Close
82 Commonwealth Close is featured in Before It All Goes – Architecture from Singapore’s Early Independence Years – a book that was launched at Darren Soh’s solo exhibition, which was held at Objectifs from August – September 2018. This exhibition presented images of eight iconic sites from Singapore’s early independence years that are now getting demolished and redeveloped. The eight sites are: Pearl Bank Apartments, People’s Park Complex, Golden Mile Complex, Golden Mile Tower, Bedok and Buona Vista Swimming Complexes, Queenstown Cinema, Tanglin Halt Estate and Rochor Centre.
About Darren Soh
Darren Soh’s photographic practice explores architecture, urban landscape and space. An established photographer who is most recognised for his documentation of vernacular architecture, Darren has been placed in several international photography awards over the years, including the Commonwealth Photographic Awards, the Prix de la Photographie, Paris, the International Photography Awards, PDN and ICON de Martell Cordon Bleu. His works have been shown widely, including solo exhibitions at The Esplanade and Objectifs (Singapore Art Week 2015), and internationally at photography festivals like Noorderlicht (The Netherlands) and Obscura (Penang). He has published several monographs including While You Were Sleeping (2004), For My Son (2015) and In the Still of the Night (2016).
Darren was one of the co-founders of Platform.sg, an initiative to showcase photography of Singapore or by Singaporean photographers. As champions of local photography, Platform.sg has gone on to support and publish 22 Singapore photography books and most recently, an exhibition of 34 Singaporean photographers in Istanbul (Apr-May 2018). He continues to advocate for photography as an art form, and contributes actively to the community through frequent public talks and ground up projects that focus on documenting Singapore.
DARK CITIES (SOFTCOVER) by Shyue Woon
DARK CITIES Trilogy (DCT), inaugural winner of the FIRST DRAFT Award by THEBOOKSHOW, is a series of three books of photographs re-imagining fringe spaces in the metropoles of Singapore, Tokyo and Seoul. CARPARK, first in the series, investigates the nocturnal meanderings of a dark multi-storey carpark in Singapore. CAPSULE, the second book, revisits a futuristic tower in Ginza built in the 1970s, through the imagined eyes and mind of its architect. The third book EULJIRO is a lost and found diary of a fading iconic Seoul district, once a symbol of the country’s modernisation.
DCT is the for finalist for SIPF (Singapore International Photography Festival) Photobook Open call 2018, finalist for Encontros de Imagem Open Call, Portugal 2018 and finalist for IPA Award for Photobook 2018.
DCT was previously exhibited at First Draft @Objectifs 2017, Tokyo Art Book Fair 2017, Dali Photography Exhibition 2017, New Margin @DECK Singapore 2018, Basel Art Book Fair 2018, Shanghai Art Book Fair 2018, Singapore Art Book fair 2018, Penang Obscura Photography Festival 2018, Singapore International Photo Festival 2018 and Unseen Amsterdam 2018.
More information about the book may be found here.
About Shyue Woon
Shyue Woon, trained as an Architect, uses photography as a tool to explore subtext in the built environment. In his daily practice as an architect, he turns aspirations and dreams into constructible reality. At night, he reverses the process – deconstructing reality and spaces into fiction and figments of imagination.
Shyue Woon’s debut photobook Dark Cities won the inaugural First Draft Award by THEBOOKSHOW. Woon was also selected as an artist in Mt Rokko International Photography Festival Emerging Photographers Showcase 2016 and his work has been exhibited in Turkey, Japan, Ukraine, Australia, Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore. His works were also selected for +50, a collective for Singapore’s Photographers; and “Thank you, Mr Lee” (2015), a book tribute to late LKY.
WOMEN IN FILM 2018: A BETTER MAN
Women in Film 2018: Collective Power came to a close on Sat 13 Oct with the screening of A Better Man by Canadian filmmakers Attiya Khan and Lawrence Jackman. This documentary sees …
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WOMEN IN FILM 2018: AVA
Women in Film 2018: Collective Power continued with yet another rainy night and yet another sold-out screening: Ava, by Iranian-Canadian director Sadaf Foroughi, is a coming-of-age story depicting the titular protagonist’s …
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WOMEN IN FILM 2018: WARU
After Wednesday’s sold out screening of On Her Shoulders [read our recap here], Women in Film 2018: Collective Power continued with the anthology film Waru, featuring eight Maori women filmmakers’ perspectives on the …
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WOMEN IN FILM 2018: ON HER SHOULDERS
Women in Film 2018: Collective Power kicked off at Objectifs with a sold-out screening of On Her Shoulders, just days after the documentary’s subject Nadia Murad, a genocide survivor and human …
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COSMO by Gilles Massot
Based on the concept of the constant self-recording mode, also known as COS•MO, this is the catalogue of the exhibition presented in 2013 at the Institute of Contemporary Arts that gathered 29 artists presenting their understanding of the concept, whether through images, sound, or interactive installation.
About Gilles Massot
Gilles Massot adopts a multidisciplinary process to establish links between narratives, occurrences and parts of the world. Based in Singapore since 1981, his book Bintan, Phoenix of the Malay Archipelago (2003) deeply influenced his artistic work, which now often deals with history and ethnology, while his conceptual concerns are in the theory of photography and the phenomenon of “recording” the revolutionary medium initiated.
His current pictorial project is centred on research about Jules Itier and the first photographs of Asia made in the 1840s, while his theoretical research explores the relations between the history of photography and that of quantum mechanics. A recipient of the French award Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres, his work has been presented in over 50 exhibitions in France and Asia.
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WOMEN IN FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY 2018
Presented by Objectifs Chapel & Lower Galleries, Objectifs 5 Oct to 18 Nov 2018
With the backdrop of collective movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp gaining momentum in the past …
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WOMEN IN FILM 2018: SCREENINGS
Women in Film 2018: Collective Power ran at Objectifs from 10 to 13 Oct 2018 with the Singapore premiere of four international feature films, each followed by post-screening discussions.
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