Interviews

Wesley Loh/ Tan Ngiap Heng: Digital Photographers

With guts, passion (and a little business sense) you can also follow their footsteps to digital Nirvana. Wesley Loh and Tan Ngiap Heng are two local photographers who started out 100 miles from their original professions. With over 10 years of experience and shooting behind them they’re blazing a trail of images that makes them stand out from an already crowded crowd. more »

Donna Ong: Artist

Sitting atop one of the high stools in her Little India studio, Donna Ong passionately launches into a detailed explanation of her latest project – PALACE OF DREAMS, which is to be the main feature of her first solo exhibition in November. Having observed the artistic growth of the petite 26-year-old over the last couple of years, I am delighted to learn she will finally have the opportunity to share her art with a wider audience.  more »

Yang Tien, Digital Artist: Painting in Time

CURRENTLY showing at Epson’s Epsite Gallery at Wheelock Place is an exhibition of abstract art created on computer and printed onto paper by Singapore artist Yang Tien. We went in clueless about art but came out suitably enlightened. more »

The Media Hive

The Media Hive (Film-making School) is a story of two visionaries who saw on the horizon what the Singapore film-making scene would one day become. To get there, however, took them 10 years of hard struggle, business success and failure to learn all the lessons that has helped them shape The Media Hive into a nest of activity and into one of the most promising and leading edge schools in Singapore. We managed to pull Tony Chow out of his busy schedule for a quick interview. more »

Dr. Foo Check Teck. Enterprising Vietnam (and what we can learn from them)

Sometimes it takes a few good images to make us ponder about who we really are and what we really can achieve.The recent exhibition of film and digital prints, in March 2004, at the Photographic Society of Singapore by Dr. Foo Check Teck on the Vietnamese Entrepreneurial Spirit was a timely reminder that we can learn a thing or two from our neighbour on stepping out and doing what Asians are famed for... being an entrepreneur. more »