July 17, 2014

Picture Singapore, a photo contest for FASS students, faculty, staff, and alumni, presented by the Singapore Research Nexus (SRN), will be judged by four distinguished members of the FASS community with considerable experience in photography, media, film and other related fields.

Do you want to know more about them and what they do? Please take a look below!

• Dr Ivan Kwek Eng Tai          

Dr Ivan Kwek is a lecturer from FASS Sociology Department. He holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. Ivan conducted ethnography of media production at the only Malay-language terrestrial television channel in Singapore for his doctoral research. His thesis was an attempt to present an anthropologically-informed account of media production reconsidered in terms of its constitutive practices. Currently, he is working on the cultural production of Malayness through media, memories, and place. At NUS, he has taught courses in Visual Culture, Media and Culture, Race and Ethnicity in South Southeast Asia, and Popular Culture.

•   Dr Gilbert Yeoh                                                        

Dr Gilbert Yeoh is a Senior Lecturer from the English Language and Literature Department, FASS. He is a Singaporean who studied English Literature at Harvard University. His core teaching area centres on 20^th century literature, often with a focus on modernist and postmodernist literature. He also teaches courses on film, in particular with emphasis on film aesthetics. His research interests include literature and ethics, as well as the writings of J.M. Coetzee.

•     Lim Weixiang

Lim Weixiang majored in Economics at the National University of Singapore and taught General Paper in a junior college for five years before making the leap to become a full-time photographer. He has worked as a freelance photojournalist for Singapore’s main English daily newspaper, the Straits Times, and his photo essays can be seen regularly on popular online news and entertainment portal Insing.com. In 2011, he was named as one of the 10 emerging photographers by PLATFORM. A mentee of celebrated visual artist John Clang, his work has been shown at the National Museum of Singapore and most recently at the Obscura Festival of Photography in Penang and the Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia. In 2013, he published his first book, “Our Coastline” as part of the twentyfifteen.sg initiative to commemorate Singapore’s Golden Jubilee. Living in a society constantly in flux, he uses photography to explore the themes of memory and loss, as well as the fears and insecurities of his generation of Singaporeans.

•  Tan Sie Wee

Tan Sie Wee is an Interactive and Media Producer at National University of Singapore. He is involved in every stage of the film or video, overseeing the project from start to finish, both in the studio and on location.  He is the award winner of IDA “Can’t Live Without Technology” Short Film Competition in 2012. He previously worked as a Consultant at Best Harvest Money Lender Company. Tan completed his Bachelor’s degree in Economics in the year 2012 at FASS.

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