Singaporean artist Cherngzhi Lian lives and works in Singapore, but spends most of his life travelling. He does so to escape the anxieties of his familiar landscape, and to grow with new experiences. Using pen, ink and watercolour, Lian creates wonderful sketches and paintings of planes, trains, landmarks and everyday life. According to Lian, drawing […]

Remember when we used to hang out with our peers at the playground after school, playing catch or just running around the premises? To remind us of those times, Stefen Chow, a Singaporean photographer who is presently based in Beijing, came up with the concept to capture the playgrounds all over Singapore from a different […]

Instagram art? If you’re skeptical, we wouldn’t be surprised, but Singaporean Instagrammer Ng Weijiang makes creative use of the app’s grid format to create continuous works of art in larger compositions that are only visible when you view his entire feed. Sticking to a monochromatic palette, the individual photos are no less cinematically composed. As attention […]

Ellis Island was once a primary clearing house for millions of immigrants, marking their gateway to a new life in United States. For more than six decades, the Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital had been closed to the public; today, the abandoned structure has been brought back to life through an exhibition titled, “Unframed”, featuring century-old […]

      Nguan is a Singaporean photographer who has been presenting a unique and uncommon view of the country as we know it. Tinged in pastel, with hints of nostalgia, Nguan describes his photographs as expressing “big city yearning, ordinary fantasies, and emotional globalisation.” He captures moments that seem quite ordinary at first glance, but are […]

        With a penchant for stark shapes and a Wes Anderson-hued colour palette, visual designer and photographer Giorgio Stefanoni turns his lens on commonplace buildings in Milan. His series, Unknown Geometries, is a playful, charming look at the places that we come across but don’t really take notice of, and encourages everyone to take a second […]