2025
Launched b1965.sg, a personal project documenting the lives of Singaporeans born in 1965, the same year Singapore gained independence.
2024
Retires as Co-Director of POY Asia after leading the organisation for four years
Visual Storytelling Presenter
NIMBUS’s Pre-General Elections Workshop
Photojournalism Workshop Presenter
Nanyang Primary School
2023
2021
Co-Director & Founding Advisor
Pictures of the Year Asia
Faculty Member
73rd Missouri Photo Workshop
2020
Faculty Member
72nd Missouri Photo Workshop
Judge
Reportage Division
77th Pictures of the Year
Missouri School of Journalism, University of Missouri
Media Trainer
Life Is A Pitch Workshop for Singapore Art Museum
2019
Nominator(2019 – 2021)
World Press Photo Joop Swart Masterclass
Editor & Designer
Chinatown by Sha Ying
Chapel Gallery, Objectifs, Singapore
Jury Member (since 2016)
Singapore Book Awards
Media Trainer
Life Is A Pitch Workshop for SINGTEL
2018
Exhibiting Artist
Panoramic Singapore
Post-Repost-Share @ Photo Bangkok 2018
Bangkok Art & Culture Centre
Moderator
Photographing Unseen Stories
HappyHourChat @ Singapore Art Museum
July 27, 2018
Curator & Exhibiting Artist
Singapore Unseen
Pera Museum
Istanbul, Turkey
Instructor
Photography Workshop
Ministry of Education, Singapore
Panelist
Visual Epilogues:
Penang | Singapore
岁末双城故事
2002～2010 影像回顾
2016
Project Director
PLATFORM +50 Book Project, Singapore
Expert Panel Member
The Seed Grant,
National Arts Council
2015
Curator & Project Director
TwentyFifteen.sg exhibition, Jendela Gallery, Esplanade
Speaker
The 5 Stars Roundtable@Singapore Art Museum
Featured Photographer
Celebrating Asian Photobooks
Kassel Photobook Festival, Germany
Featured Photographer
14th Dong Gang International Photo Festival, Dong Gang, South Korea
Commissioned Artist
Marina Bay Station, Art In Transit program, Land Transport Authority, Singapore
Jury Member
Siena International Photography Award 2015
Co-editor
JONGKEUN PARK, Winner, 5th ILWOO Photography Prize
Judge (till 2017, for photography, illustration & design)
In-house competition, Chinese Media Division, Singapore Press Holdings
2014
Curator
Go-Far 10th Anniversary exhibition, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University
Author
Made in Singapore, fifth in the TwentyFifteen.sg series
Judge
Kuala Lumpur International Photoawards
Lecturer
Applied Creativity & Entrepreneurship module, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University
Columnist
Professional Photography Magazine UK
Workshop Leader
Applied Creativity, for Pavilion Capital
2013
Exhibitor
PARALLAX, Asean-Korea Center, Seoul, South Korea
Featured Photographer
IMAGE MAKERS documentary series, directed by Chen-Hsi Wong
Author & Publisher
SPOOKS
Curator
Taman Jurong: A Place Called Home exhibition, Taman Jurong Community Museum
Co-founder, Editor & Publisher
TwentyFifteen.sg, an initiative to publish 20 new books by 20 Singaporean photographers
2011
Curator & Project Manager
National Day Parade 2011 Traveling Exhibition
Picture Editor & Designer
GE11: We Were There magazine
Creator & Chief Judge
The Big Picture Contest, a weekly photography contest conceptualized for the Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth (MCCY) and The New Paper, ran from 2011 to 2015.
Photographer & Writer
Home Just Got Closer, a booklet exploring human relationships, for National Heritage Board, Singapore
2009
(till 2011) Photographer
Singapore At Work, 50th anniversary book project, National Trades Union Congress
(till 2015) Lecturer
Photojournalism, Nanyang Technological University
Photographer
Book project, Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts
Writer & Director
Dads For Life, a short multimedia documentary on fatherhood, for the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports
Photographer, Writer & Designer
Close Encounters of the Nice Kinds, a commission from National Heritage Board, Singapore
Featured artist
Colour Maestro, a television documentary series on Singaporean artists, aired on Singapore’s Channel U
2008
Author & Publisher
Becoming Capa
Exhibitor
PhotoArtAsia magazine launch, Bangkok, Thailand
Photographer
Nike Human Race book project, Singapore leg
Photographer
Singapore Petroleum Company annual report
Photographer
DBS 40/40 Corporate Social Responsibility Project
Contributor
Preoccupations: Things Artists Do Anyway
2007
Photographer
Singapore Technologies Engineering 40th anniversary book
Becoming Capa, a novella written in 1992 was turned into a feature film, Becoming Royston
2006
Curator
Out of Focus, Month of Photography, Singapore
Author & Publisher
Panoramic Singapore
Co-founder
Kay Ngee Tan Architects Gallery with architect Tan Kay Ngee
Exhibitor
Unphotographable, Esplanade Tunnel, Singapore
Coordinator
International Photography Research Network Singapore-UK Residency
2005
(till 2006) Instructor
Desktop Publishing, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University
Invited Photographer
Vision Beijing
Photographer
The Journey, Singapore’s Land Transport Story
Completed personal project – August 9 Babies – 40 people born on August 9
Invited Nominator
World Press Photo 50th anniversary book – Things As They Are
Director of Photography & Curator
Glimpses of Light exhibitions on tsunami
2004
Lead Documentary Photographer & Humanitarian Relief Volunteer
Mercy Relief
Epson Stylus Pro
Epson Singapore
Picture Editor
38 degree, Remembering Sars exhibition, Singapore History Museum(now National Museum of Singapore)
Olympus Visionary
Olympus Singapore
Columnist
Grain magazine
Exhibitor
Chobi Mela photography festival, Dhaka, Bangladesh