Friday, 20 November 2009

"I won't be making much from this photo fair.
Just come and see, and bring a print home you just might!"

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hello family and friends and other secret readers,


i will be selling a selection of my work at the Affordable Photo Fair at Objectifs (56A Arab St) this saturday 21st nov from 11am to 7pm. most will be from the i would be happy to see you guys around so do come by if you can!

if you are unable to come by on saturday or would like a preview of the works that will be on sale, do let me know and I'll send a pdf catalogue over to you.

there will be 13 photographers selling work at this fair and all prints will be priced at $300 and below so it's a good chance to be inspired by a wide range of fresh works and perhaps even collect some!

do send some generous and interested eyes over too if you know any. :]

thanks and hope to see you this saturday!

and yep, i should really stop overdosing on the "i don't remember much about that holiday. just you and me, and that beautiful dappled light" sentence structure.

see you tomorrow!



yan wei


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You are invited to The 4th Affordable Photo Fair!

Look, learn and leave with local art!

Whether you are starting as a new collector or buying a gift for someone, the wide range of works you will find at the Affordable Photo Fair are original and unique. Best of all, it's a great chance to speak to the artist about his inspiration and how to care for the artwork.

Carefully selected by Objectifs, this small but exciting event promises a diverse variety of photography styles, from conceptual photography, to travel, documentary and fine art by both established and emerging photographers.

Participating Photographers include:
Angeline Tng // Phua Boon Wah // Dennis Ng // Jean Qingwen Loo // Choo Meng Foo // Nurul Huda // Philipp Aldrup // Sophie Jarry // Shaun Tan // Lim Swee Cheng // Ulla Gratton // Chia Yan Wei

. Date: Nov 21, Sat
. Time: 11am - 7pm
. Venue: Objectifs - Centre for Photography and Filmmaking (56A Arab Street, corner of Arab Street and Baghdad Street)

For more information, visit http://www.objectifs.com.sg/apf

Hope to see you then!

Saturday, 31 October 2009

colour pencils in a hotel room // 15th to 18th june 2009.

my eyes are melting and i have been thinking of malacca.

some drawings made with a big old box of colour pencils while staring at the sea//straits//蓝天白云微浪 earlier this year...

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i'll be off travelling again very soon in december and then january for work and work, these two trips suddenly came in just as i was wondering not long ago if i'd ever get to travel for work.

"want come, don't come. one come, all come."

(some vague saying i remember from my childhood about waiting for buses. )

there's definitely someone listening in to all my thoughts.

Friday, 23 October 2009

i work seasonally



from Spring to Summer

i am a photographer

from Autumn to Winter

i am a designer

and whenever i have the chance,

i dance!


(lines in my mind from the same night of 突发新闻)

(hrmm and i guess it would be more accurate to add a 'mostly' after the photographer and designer lines)

(and perhaps a bit of 'at least for this year' at the end)

(or more accurate to refer to the previous post below)

sunlight, moonlight & starlight

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又 sunlight

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又 moonlight

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还 starlight

sooner or later 一定 chaotar 。

Thursday, 10 September 2009

突发新闻



今天突然发现, 好友都在国外。

数来数去数不清, 数到不开心。 : (


( 当然,这个城市里还是藏有




个,

两个,

一群一班,

老朋友,小朋友,

知己朋友,猪朋狗友(!),

损友,良友,

摄友,设友,舞友,

超级好朋友


还有家人。 )


还有还有

还友还友

一个永远不会遗弃我的 良 友

Friday, 28 August 2009

fishing in the sky and flying in the lake

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august 2009, marina barrage.

august 2009, marina barrage.

june 2007, lake by a sommarhus in sweden.


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how time flies, while waiting.

风筝飞,日落下 //( 天时、地利、人和 )

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a few weeks ago, it suddenly dawned upon me that... i am currently twenty something..when i am thirty something, my parents will be seventy something.... when i am forty something, God-willing, they will be eighty something!! and i thought that my dad is so blessed that at age sixty something, he still has his mother around.

and so the next day i decided to start making it a point to mai tu liao with regards to things that we say we want to do together. and so i took them to Henderson waves cos we've been talking about going there for yonks.

and it was a wonderful impromptu morning. : ]

haha and earlier this week was part two of the new mai tu liao mantra... after finishing up some work in the morning and spending the afternoon in my childhood neighbourhood with my lindy hop ensemble friends for an AEP assembly thingie, i found the afternoon super sunny, windy and absolutely favourable for kite-flying.

and so with the kites i've been buying with much secret hope in my heart from the toy shop at tan quee lan the past few times i've been running errands in the area, i carted my parents off to marina barrage to finally go fly kite (literally) together!

after a few days of "风筝已备,只欠东风" the wind finally came accompanied with glorious sunshine!

wah i think it was the first time in my life that i've flown a kite so high up that it took almost half an hour just winding it back down when we had to leave. it was a real struggle to get the kite really flying high cos as my father pointed out to me, i had bought a kite meant for 3 year olds haha. we even had to tumpang the kite string. i think that means join it up. anyway wah sunshine, wind, kite and laughing parents.



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song boh!!