Singapore is a beautiful city that’s host to a multicultural population resulting to a variety of street destinations each having it’s own vibe and experience. This is what I tried to photograph in this series of streetscapes.
My early influence has always been street photography – capturing the day-to-day as it happens in the streets. This is where my passion for photography basically grew as a hobby. I started working on personal projects like spending hours on weekends shooting street ; or walking around drenched in rain while capturing moments in bad weather ; or asking strangers if I could take their portraits.
Eventually, I transitioned to shooting full time as a career doing lifestyle, corporate, and commercial jobs. But whenever I have free time, I often find myself going back to the streets.
Recently, I tried to create a series of images that could maybe provide a quick glimpse of how it looks and feels like to be in the streets of Singapore. Each image is a composite of multiple photographs of different strangers going about their day-to-day.
Here are the images I’ve created so far:
Some have a story to tell, others are just a snapshot of how looks like to be in the middle of the crowd. Either way, it’s something I always wanted to try out and had good fun in the process.
Singapore is such a multifaceted place that you can't help but see and feel the diverse energy of the crowd as you move from one place to another. From the central business district's suits and high heels, to the shopping centre's young fashionistas and clueless tourists, to the heartland's homey…
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