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Source: New Nomadic Eyes
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Eye ¨¦ City A Visual Account of the
Last 24 Hours of 2004 |
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The Exhibition 1 to 30
October 2005, 10am to 9pm |
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Book Launch & Sharing
Session 8 October 2005, 2.30pm |
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Creative Photography
Talk by Bob Lee (In Mandarin) 29 October 2005, 2.30pm |
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Venue: National Library
100 Victoria St. Basement 1 Free admission for all activities |
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Eye ¨¦ City - A Visual Account of the Last 24
Hours was held for the third time in Singapore at the year-end of 2004. |
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The response was overwhelming with 175
participants. After several rounds of selection, 100 images that best
uphold the spirit of the event will be featured in an
exhibition-cum-publication. |
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The black and white photography exhibition
will open on 1 Oct 2005 at with the book launch on 8 Oct 2005 at 2.30pm
at the Central Lending Library (Basement 1), National Library. Admission
is free. |
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The 100 images collected in year 2004¡¯s Eye
¨¦ City hopes to give a extensive and varied rendition of the facets of
life. |
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Behind every picture seemed to have been a
story of hope and disappointment, joy and pain, bustle and desolation ¨C
encapsulating the physiognomy of the city. The images also depicted
participants¡¯ views of the city they live in and their relationship with
the city. |
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For the publication, actual words from the
participant accompanied with selected photograph, providing a verbal
complement to the images. The limited edition memento book will be on
sale at a special price of $20 each during the exhibition. After that it
will be on sale at major bookstores at $25 each. |
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The Beginning |
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¡°A Visual Account of the Last 24 Hours¡± was
initiated by the Nanyang Folk Culture Society of Penang in 1999. Within
two years it expanded to major cities in West Malaysia. Singapore joined
their ranks in 2002, with Nomadic Eyes Collective kicking off the event,
hoping to retain memories of this city. This year-end photo event is
aimed at depicting changes cities undergo and documenting developments
in humanism. |
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The Essence |
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Eye ¨¦ City uses photograph on the last day
of the year as a media to encourage narration and documentation of
social changes, to form the collective memories of Singapore from the
eye of ordinary individuals. |
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Beginning at 12.00am to 11.59pm on 31 Dec
2004, participants will go island wide to take photos of what they
personally perceived as important and significant for the year. |
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The event did not adopt a specific theme;
neither was it filled with much fanfare and pageantry. Participants were
free to pick the time and place to capture the images. There was no
restriction on the type of camera used, but the maximum number of
submissions per person was 36 works. |
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The Participants |
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The 2004 event attracted the participation
of 175 persons, aged 19 to 69. Among whom were those who took part in
the activity over the last two years and found it worthy to continue to
render their support; Apart from Singaporeans, foreign immigrants
(including those from Philippines and India) left works depicting their
impression of the Lion City and their lives here. As one thumbs through
this visual account, one in fact gets a glimpse of the cultural
diversity of the participants. |
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The participants came from all walks of life
¨C civil servants, accountants, teachers, engineers, journalists,
national service personals, administrators, arts practitioners, and
students, among others. While a handful hails from the photography
profession, most of them are amateur. |
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Selection & Preparation |
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On January 29 and 30, 2005, participants
came forth to make preliminary selection of their photographs. They
picked three photographs based primarily on the unique angle adopted and
content of the images; technical skills were secondary. |
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Then on 27 February, a selection panel
converged to choose 100 pictures from the submission of more than 400
works. These were images that best depicted the happenings of 2004. |
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The panel included theatre practitioner Lim
Jen Erh, art researcher Koh Nguang How, photo-journalist Bob Lee and
photographers Sha Ying and Foo Tee Jun and other members of the New
Nomadic Eyes Collective. |
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Behind The Scene |
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Eye ¨¨ City 2004 was succeeded and
conceptualised by the New Nomadic Eyes Collective, whose members
comprised community worker Ang Chong Leong, photographer Lee Chee Ming,
youth workers Cell Tono Lim and Yap Ching Wi, IT personnel Nicholas
Huang, art researcher Koh Nguang How, and self-employed Tan Puay Hoon. |
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Content
Contributor: New Nomadic Eyes Collective |
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Eye ¨¦ city - a visual account of the last 24 hours of 2004
