{"id":17006,"date":"2014-07-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2014\/07\/17\/judges-for-picture-singapore\/"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:14:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T08:14:09","slug":"judges-for-picture-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/2014\/07\/17\/judges-for-picture-singapore\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges for Picture Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-17003\" src=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Picture-Singapore-July7_2014-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"691\" height=\"389\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Picture-Singapore-July7_2014-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Picture-Singapore-July7_2014-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Picture-Singapore-July7_2014-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/fass.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2020\/08\/Picture-Singapore-July7_2014.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 691px) 100vw, 691px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Picture Singapore<\/em>, 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.<\/p>\n<p>Do you want to know more about them and what they do? Please take a look below!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dr Ivan Kwek Eng Tai \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/judges-for-picture-singapore\/ivan\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36565\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36565 aligncenter\" title=\"Dr Ivan Kwek Eng Tai \" src=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/ivan-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"114\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">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,\u00a0memories, and place. At NUS, he has taught courses in Visual Culture, Media and Culture, Race and Ethnicity in South Southeast Asia, and Popular Culture.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Dr Gilbert Yeoh \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/judges-for-picture-singapore\/gilbert\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36564\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36564 aligncenter\" title=\"Dr Gilbert Yeoh\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/gilbert.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"86\" height=\"119\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Dr Gilbert Yeoh is a Senior Lecturer from the English Language and Literature Department, FASS.\u00a0He is a Singaporean who studied English Literature at Harvard University.\u00a0His core teaching area centres on 20<sup>th<\/sup> 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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Lim Weixiang<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/judges-for-picture-singapore\/lim\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36566\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36566 aligncenter\" title=\"Lim Weixiang\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Lim-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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\u2019s 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\u00a0mentee 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, &#8220;Our Coastline&#8221; as part of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/exchange.nus.edu.sg\/owa\/redir.aspx?C=A_3xMYawsUKUV2xur5OTZ33YyWHSatFICCUH01_pkvC2gncSfMN0tqqGtOAfbXAhZpngvSiMj-8.&amp;URL=http%3a%2f%2ftwentyfifteen.sg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">twentyfifteen.sg<\/a>\u00a0initiative to commemorate Singapore&#8217;s Golden Jubilee.\u00a0Living 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.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Tan Sie Wee<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/judges-for-picture-singapore\/tan-sie-wee\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36567\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36567 aligncenter\" title=\"Tan Sie Wee\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Tan-Sie-Wee.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>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. \u00a0He is the award winner of IDA &#8220;Can\u2019t Live Without Technology&#8221; Short Film Competition in 2012.\u00a0He previously worked as a Consultant at Best Harvest Money Lender Company. Tan completed his Bachelor\u2019s degree in Economics in the year 2012 at FASS.<\/p>\n<p>Click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fas.nus.edu.sg\/srn\/wp\/picture-singapore-srn-photo-contest\">here<\/a> to find out more about Picture Singapore!<\/p>\n<p>If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at <a href=\"mailto:nexus@nus.edu.sg\">nexus@nus.edu.sg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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? 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