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In Beyond Wilderness, photographer Chua Chye Teck explores the fast disappearing natural wilderness in Singapore through a series of black and white photographs. Using the forest structure to express the idea of emotional layers, his photographs are a reflection on memory and transformation, and present the dualities of isolation and the unknown. Beyond Wilderness charts the artistic and spiritual journeys of the photographer, and is as much one man’s personal encounter with nature as it is a social commentary about the fast-changing landscape of a modern society.

This book was launched at Objectifs in 2017 and features an interview between Chua Chye Teck and Silke Schmickl.

About Chua Chye Teck
Chua Chye Teck is a passionate collector of images, memories and spaces. He takes photographs of the visible and with them he indicates things invisible. His work is inspired by the conflicting field of spatial and social relations within specific, generally urban surroundings; it is a matter of people, their actions with respect to the space they occupy, inhabit or merely cross briefly.

About Silke Schmickl
Silke Schmickl is the co-founder of the curatorial platform Lowave. She studied Art History, French Literature and International Communications in Munich and Paris where she graduated from Panthéon-Sorbonne University. A specialist in contemporary photography and video art, she has been a researcher at the German Art History Center for 15 years and has published over 60 art DVDs for Lowave. She has initiated and directed various research projects dedicated to emerging art scenes including the Middle East, Africa, India, Turkey and Singapore. Since 2008, she has curated contemporary art exhibitions in partnerships with museums and biennials in Singapore, Paris, Guangzhou, Beirut and Düsseldorf.
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Documentary photographer Ian Teh has had his work exhibited internationally, and received multiple prestigious grants for his personal projects. Outside of his artistic practice, he has taken on a prominent …
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Wei Leng Tay is a visual artist working with mediums including photography, audio, video and installation. Aside from her own projects, she is in the collective project Sightlines (2016-) which questions collectivity …
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SALAD is a photographer’s study of the textures found in parks. It is a collection of 200 photographs taken in 24 parks across five countries. Close-ups, which are cropped as squares, the photographs recall the grids commonly used to plan parks. Collected over a span of five years, between 2013 and 2017, the collection emulates a scientific collection. Appropriating scientific fieldwork methods of collecting, ordering and identification, the collection of photographs systematically documents different natural spaces. Yet, in spite of the notations of each photograph, the photographs are decontextualised and open to interpretation—leaving the viewer to navigate, make connections and respond to the photographer’s attempt to make sense of our relationship to nature.

This book was selected as one of the finalists for the Singapore International Photography Festival 2018 Photobook Open Call.

About Loh Xiang Yun

Born in 1988, Loh Xiang Yun is an artist who lives and works in Singapore. Her work has been exhibited regionally at Yeo Workshop in Singapore, Hsinchu Art Museum in Taiwan, Dali International Photography Exhibition in China and Toyko Art Book Fair in Japan, among other spaces and exhibitions.

Her work interrogates how people relate to nature. Using her observations made through drawing, painting and photography, she examines the everyday to study how nature is managed and engineered in our cities. Through durational projects that map and document our natural surroundings, she charts the changing ways we see and define nature.
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Local photographer Grace Baey is the inaugural recipient of the Objectifs Documentary Award 2018 (Emerging Category). Her solo exhibition (Un)bound, a collaborative project with and about transgender individuals in Singapore, …
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From communal villages to high-rise flats, how has the “kampung spirit” of old survived the transition? For those who call Waterloo Centre home, sharing comes organically. A funeral turns private grief into public spectacle — a community appears, gathers, mourns and then disappears…

In Rhetorical Territories, photographer Tom White memorably captures how this coexistence takes place at every moment through subtle acts of “negotiation” rather than government policy.

The book also documents the responses of 40 viewers from all walks of life. Their thoughts offer us a fascinating look at private vs public space, cultural belonging, and the meaning of home in Singapore.

Alfian bin Sa’at contributes a set of haikus inspired by Tom White’s photographs. Writer, poet, and resident playwright at theatre group WILD RICE, Alfian has written many award-winning literary and stage works.

About Tom White

Tom White (Singapore-based, Yorkshire-born) is an independent photographer working in documentary, journalism, and editorial photography. He also conducts workshops at Singapore’s Objectifs Centre for Film and Photography and teaches documentary arts and photojournalism at Yale-NUS College. He has previously taught at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and International Center of Photography. His work has been published and exhibited internationally. Tom is a graduate of Goldsmiths (University of London) and the International Center of Photography in New York

About Exactly Foundation

Exactly Foundation is a not-for-profit, trademarked registered label established by Li Li Chung to commission photographers to create works that stimulate discussion of social concerns in Singapore. Its goal is to produce new knowledge by having viewers engage with the photographs and share them with friends and family over a 2-3 month period.
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Can a photograph show what is absent, what has been erased?

In Mute, photographer Chia Aik Beng lets us “see”, through his camera, a part of Singapore’s history that has been all but forgotten: Little Japan, a once-flourishing enclave in Singapore, complete with a red-light district — right where Bugis Junction stands today. The enigmatic images evoke a world beyond our knowledge, leaving us to wonder, Why didn’t we know this before?

Alongside the photographs, this volume documents the responses of over 80 viewers from all walks of life, including many current Japanese residents of Singapore. Their thoughts on the mutability of history make this a uniquely moving as well as thought-provoking work.

Kenneth Tay, a Singapore-based writer and independent curator, contributes a keynote essay to this volume. Formerly an assistant curator at NUS Museum, he has published many monograph essays on artists and was co-editor of Left to Right (L-R) 2016.

About Chia Aik Beng

Chia Aik Beng, also known as ABC, has been a prolific photographer since 2008. He is the author of Tonight the Streets are Ours, a monograph on Singapore’s Little India district after dusk, and the Singkarpor projects (2011 – ongoing), which comprises thousands of photographs on Singaporeans’ daily lives, including a special feature on the unprecedented outpouring of public mourning over Lee Kuan Yew’s death. Aik Beng’s vivid, gritty images of people on Singapore streets have garnered him a huge following. In 2015, he helmed the UK Guardian newspaper’s Travel Instagram account for a three-day special feature on Singapore.

About Exactly Foundation

Exactly Foundation is a not-for-profit, trademarked registered label established by Li Li Chung to commission photographers to create works that stimulate discussion of social concerns in Singapore. Its goal is to produce new knowledge by having viewers engage with the photographs and share them with friends and family over a 2-3 month period.
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Northeast Hinterland captures evocative night scenes of Punggol, a northeastern suburb that has been touted as “a waterfront town of 21st century Singapore”. In this series of thought-provoking photographs of Kevin WY Lee, we are shown a different side of the story. Here is a Punggol we do not normally see — one where “sleep and sight are paradoxical”, where “histories, mythologies, legacies… play hide and seek”.

Alongside the photographs, this volume documents the responses of over 100 viewers from all works of life. Their opinions, recollections and musings triggered by the images offer us a fascinating, multifaceted look at history, identity, and the ambiguities of land custodianship in Singapore.

Eminent art historian, curator and writer Tony Godfrey contributes a keynote essay, “Nox in the Banlieue?” Tony’s works, which include Conceptual Art (1998) and Painting Today (2009), have been highly influential in contemporary art studies.

Lawrence Basapa, grandson of the founder of Singapore’s first private zoo, located in Punggol, pens a heartfelt personal message.

About Kevin WY Lee

Kevin WY Lee is a photographer and creative director based in Singapore. In 2010, he founded Invisible Photographer Asia (IPA), an influential platform for photography and visual arts in Asia. Through IPA, Kevin participates vigorously in photography and art across the region as a practitioner, curator and educator. In his own practice, Kevin is interested in Singapore — her temperament, aesthetic and growing pains.

About Exactly Foundation

Exactly Foundation is a not-for-profit, trademarked registered label established by Li Li Chung to commission photographers to create works that stimulate discussion of social concerns in Singapore. Its goal is to produce new knowledge by having viewers engage with the photographs and share them with friends and family over a 2-3 month period.
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The Objectifs Documentary Award champions Objectifs’ mission to broaden perspectives through image making, by supporting original voices in visual storytelling in Singapore and the wider region. The Award enables photographers …
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