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Photo exhibit on Old Airport Rd showcases idea of home

SINGAPORE — What photographs tell the story of home in Singapore? One showing the facade of a public apartment block and its corridors and windows, or photos of the view you see when you open your window?

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SINGAPORE — What photographs tell the story of home in Singapore? One showing the facade of a public apartment block and its corridors and windows, or photos of the view you see when you open your window?

Photos that detail what may be seen as normal to some, but are nostalgic and meaningful to others, and showing the diversity and connection people have with one another, are now being displayed at the SG Heart Map HomeScapes Photography Exhibition.

The exhibition at Blk 99 Old Airport Road was launched yesterday and will be held until July 5. It comprises photos by five photographers along with some works presented by students from the Raffles Girls’ School Photographic Society, who also documented their stories of home through their eyes.

Guest of honour Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said the exhibition was fascinating because the photographers captured and gave meaning to day-to-day activities and items. “The photographs have managed to capture the spirit of home and the meaning of the community around us ... (The exhibition) has captured the emotions and not just the physical infrastructure of Singapore,” he said.

Singapore International Photography Festival director Gwen Lee, who curated the exhibition, said she wanted to bring out the diversity and unique characteristics of the Singapore home.

Each photographer created a different aspect of that. One depicted animals and insects in urban areas, looking at how creatures co-exist with humans here. Another showed portraits of families in their flat, providing insight into how people live and serving as a record for future generations.

Photographer George Wong, 37, said he wanted to capture views from homes within Singapore, a personal space others do not usually get to see.

Views can be diverse, interesting and can even evoke nostalgia in others who remember that view from long ago or reminisce on how things have changed rapidly, he noted.

Mr Ang Song Nian, 32, whose series A Million Stories of Us shows the collections and personal memories in the display cabinets of several households, visited 25 households over two months before six photos were chosen for the exhibition.

Display cabinets tend to be a space where people put things important to them or tell of vital events in their lives, but are also neglected and unnoticed until people call attention to them, he said. “I wanted to look at the portrayal of individual stories but through inanimate objects, such as the things we collect, which in turn affects the space we live in. So it’s always about the story of people told through the things they possess,” he said.

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