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Singapore 牛车水 / Kereta Ayer. Where water used to be delivered via bullock cart, hence the Chinese and Malay names for what is now known as Chinatown. It was formally designated a Chinese enclave by the colonial powers in the …

Colour and chance while drinking kopi

On being published in 2 local newspapers, as the Singapore grapples with race in civil conversation.

I was playing around with shutter speeds in the middle of Chinatown, that year. I didn’t see this lady smile and do the “twist!” thing until I loaded it up in the frame. “Twist!” is what I will forever know …

Singapore, circa 2017 Different levels of excitement in Tampines interchange – the transport hub of our suburb. For a little while here I’m going to be posting the photos that go on my Instagram feed. I have a ton of …

Singapore It’s a funny thing, memory. I have no idea when I took this shot, except it was some time between 2014 and 2018. And I’m too lazy to dive into the catalogue to check it. But I know exactly …

Chinatown, Singapore 2018. Uncles playing checkers in the Buddha Tooth Relic temple square. One from when the economy wasn’t failing, we could see each other’s faces, and proximity wasn’t taboo because there was no deadly infectious virus. I hate wearing …

Singapore, circa 2018 This bus interchange is usually chock-a-block. I got this shot in a rare lull… Which didn’t last. More than a quarter of a million people live in this suburb, and this is its central transport exchange. The …