On memory and time

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 where I was standing when I took it: On Stamford Rd in City Hall, waiting…More

Chinatown throwback

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 a mask. It’s uncomfortable, hard to breathe in, and in so many ways, a muzzle.…More

Tampines interchange throwback

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 ebb and flow of people heading in and out of dozens of buses, trains, malls,…More

On ordinary

Chinatown. Singapore 2018. Uncles playing checkers in the Buddha Tooth Relic temple square. There’s always a bunch of them here, playing, watching, talking, smoking, drinking coffee, napping, lost in thought. An utterly ordinary day… …back when we didn’t know about the deadly infectious SARS-CoV-2 virus. Before the Covid-19 pandemic. Before we all had to wear…More

On Sunsets

On the hunger for that perfect still frame, and wondering what still photos will mean in the time to come.More