Just Saying – Page 3 – Tay Kay Chin

My Picture of the Year 2016

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Post published: May 19, 2016
Post category:Just Saying On Photography Travelogues
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I make a few thousands images each year, some for paid clients but mostly for myself. Each year, around this time, I will look at what I have shot and nominate a personal image that means the most to me.
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Teshima

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Post published: May 19, 2016
Post category:Just Saying Kagawa On Photography Teshima
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For a camera-crazy country, Japan has a lot of places where photography is disallowed. Practically all spaces I visited in Naoshima area have the no-photography rule. (more…)

A Different Picture

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Post published: November 13, 2015
Post category:Just Saying On Photography
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In 2014, I was asked by Deepika Shetty, ST Life! Arts Correspondent, to “comment on the many exhibitions, festivals and even a fair dedicated to photography” in Singapore. (more…)

[ BOOK LIVES ] What Have You Done To Us, Mr Salinger?

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Post published: March 17, 2010
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The day after J.D. Salinger died, a friend I have known since junior college days told me that The Catcher in the Rye was THE book that changed his life. (more…)

Serve Them Well

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Post published: December 23, 2009
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Being a typical Singaporean, I often talk about food while actually eating. And it doesn’t help that I am surrounded by friends who are like me. (more…)

Happy 20th Anniversary

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Post published: October 23, 2009
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Twenty years ago, towards the end of May 1989, I went to the USA to begin my university education. (more…)

Shooting Home

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Post published: October 6, 2009
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In a talk I gave recently, a member of the audience asked me for my assessment of the state of photography in Singapore. (more…)

Learning To Let Go

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Post published: August 29, 2009
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A few weeks ago, a schoolteacher was jailed for changing the exam scripts of several students, and she did it to improve the performance of her class, because, quite simply, she needed to look good to her bosses. (more…)

EPSON DSC Picture

With This Ring, I Marry You

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Post published: August 20, 2009
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Salim, the young Bangladeshi site supervisor who oversaw the building of our home, came over this morning to do some minor repairs, and he brought along a piece of good news. (more…)

My Coming Out Party

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Post published: December 8, 2008
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For no particular reason, I have decided to announce, today, to the whole world, in cyberspace, in my most earnest self, a secret I have been hiding for more than three decades. (more…)