Singapore from B.W. to C.
1985
My first photographic exhibition. What had initially started out as a commission of photojournalistic black and white photographs of Singapore for the French Magazine City, triggered in me the desire to explore again the relationship between painting and photography. I began working on the photographs with colours, at first in a realistic manner, then pushing this approach further to create increasingly graphic and expressionistic images. This resulted in a series of works ranging from pure black and white photos to images bursting with colours.
They were presented as a series of 47 images in an installation at a flatted factory, a typical Singaporean environment, making use of the furnitures in storage and the machinery of a carpentry workshop generously hosted by the antiques dealer Lucina Talib; the first use of an industrial space for the purpose of an art exhibition and probably one of the first shows of contemporary art photography in Singapore.
Exhibition Invite
Installation View
Singapore from B.W. to C.
Exhibited Prints
Magazine Write-ups
Sawasdee Magazine, May 1986
Signature Magazine, April 1991
