Photos For the Future

Do you have any photos that you would like to share with future generations? If so, send them in to The History Channel (Astro Channel 555) and be part of the future.

Though the Photos for the Future contest has ended, you are still warmly invited to submit your pictures and stories online. Your pictures will be kept in a permanent online archive for the benefit of future generations. The link and website are permanent.

The Photos for the Future Campaign

The aim of Photos for the Future is to create a lasting visual record of Asian life over the past century.

In every home, there are some special photographs that have not just precious sentimental value but also possibly valuable historical significance. The History Channel has launched Photos for the Future as a key initiative to invite viewers across Asia to share these photographs and the unique personal stories behind them.

Whether taken 80 years or just 8 months ago, any photo which tells a story is welcome. The History Channel seeks photos that help mark a moment, a period or an event in history – photos that show the changing faces of familiar local streets, the fashion trends or the customs of earlier generations.

How to participate:

Photos: Photos can be scanned or carefully re-photographed at high resolution with a digital camera.

Stories: The History Channel would like to know (in less than 400 words) about the people pictured and the background to the photograph.

Simply upload your photos and stories through historyasia.com.

For details of Photos for the Future, please visit historyasia.com.
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Article retrived from http://www.badanwarisan.org.my/content/?cid=284

Open Call Starts Now!!! - Singapore International Photography Festival 2010

In 2008, Singapore International Photography Festival attracted a whopping 6,600 public submissions of photographic work from photographers around the world. 12% of the total submissions were the most outstanding prints, which were shortlisted and exhibited across Singapore. The submissions were not restricted to any fixed subject or theme but selected works were grouped according to various themes by the Festival’s four curators.

Now, the 2nd SIPF 2008 commences with two categories for open call. The open-ended theme category continues with the purpose of unearthing new works and talents. This year’s festival incorporates a brand new themed category titled, ‘HUMAN: NATURE’ to address universal concerns faced by the world. The duality in the theme can be freely interpreted either as ‘Human Nature’ or ‘Human & Nature’. The ‘colon’ represents a relationship and a balanced ratio between Human and Nature. Thematically, this category is an ambitious call for creative interpretation on HUMAN: NATURE.

For more information, please visit www.sipf.sg

About Singapore International Photography Festival

The Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) is the first event of its kind in Southeast Asia. This biennial festival strives to provide a platform for Southeast Asian artists to showcase their works alongside their international peers at various venues across Singapore. The three main festival components are the official exhibitions, workshops and a 2-day portfolio review session for 50 selected Southeast Asian photographers. This will be followed by a series of workshops facilitated by curators and senior photographers for 40 participants. Alongside the official exhibitions and programmes, the SIPF Fringe activities will be carried out at various arts galleries, arts spaces and education institutions to promote photography across Singapore.

Singapore International Photography Festival Office:

OldSchool, 11b Mount Sophia, #B2-09, Singapore 228466.

Tel: +65 6339 8655/ +65 6339 2355 Fax: +65 6339 5030

For general enquiries: info@sipf.com.sg

For press enquiries: mary@sipf.com.sg

For exhibition enquiries: exhibition@sipf.com.sg

Photograph by Simon Wheatley.

NO REFUGE: BURMESE REFUGEES IN MALAYSIA

Photography Exhibition

Featuring photos by Greg Constantine, Halim Berbar, Rahman Roslan, Simon Wheatley & Zhuang Wubin

Thu 15 to Sun 25 Oct

Sun to Thu, 11am to 8pm

Fri & Sat, 11am to 9.30pm

Presented By SUARAM and The Annexe Gallery

Admission Free

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When one complains about human rights abuses in Malaysia, many Malaysians like to claim that at least we are better off than Burma. That is however not true for Burmese refugees in Malaysia. They may have escaped the horrors of living under the military rule of the junta in Burma, but here in Malaysia they live a life of fear all over again. As Malaysia is not a signatory of the Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees, Burmese refugees do not have rights in this country. Because of this, they are subject to all sorts of abuses, both by the authorities and fellow Malaysians.

Forced to hide in crammed apartments or makeshift encampments in forests, refugees live in constant fear of being detained by the Malaysian police, immigration officers and RELA volunteers. When caught, they are often abused, extorted for money, or sent to overcrowded and unhygienic detention centres. Sometimes they are even sold to human traffickers as slave labour or prostitutes. As the deplorable situation of Burmese refugees in Malaysia gains international attention, it’s high time for us to examine the human suffering we are causing.

NO REFUGE, presented by SUARAM and The Annexe Gallery, aims to highlight the plight of Burmese refugees through the works of five photographers: Greg Constantine (USA), Halim Berbar (France), Rahman Roslan (Malaysia), Simon Wheatley (UK), and Zhuang Wubin (Singapore). The works are photojournalistic documents of the living conditions of a people who are forced to flee to our hospitable country, but have yet to find refuge or hope here.

The exhibition will also mark the launch of a petition to the Malaysian Government to recognise refugees and to sign the 1951 UN Convention Relation to the Status of Refugees.

Parts of the proceeds of the sale of the photographs will be channeled to SUARAM's campaign to advocate for the rights of Burmese refugees.

For more information: http://www.annexegallery.com

FURTHER READING

http://www.unhcr.org/pages/49c3646c125.html
http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/07/14/a-burmese-familys-story-of-multiple-arrests-weekly-bribes/6299/
http://worldfocus.org/blog/2009/08/25/qa-detainee-tells-of-squalor-beatings-in-malaysian-camp/6928/
http://www.pleasedontsaymyname.org/

Fashion, celebrity photographer Irving Penn dies.

(AP Photo/Irving Penn Studio, Inc., Bert Stern)

NEW YORK – Irving Penn, whose photographs revealed a taste for stark simplicity whether he was shooting celebrity portraits, fashion, still life or remote places of the world, died Wednesday at his Manhattan home. He was 92.

The death was announced by his photo assistant, Roger Krueger.

"He never stopped working," said Peter MacGill, a longtime friend whose Pace-MacGill Galleries in Manhattan represented Penn's work. "He would go back to similar subjects and never see them the same way twice."

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(AP Photo/Irving Penn Studio, Inc.,Lisa Fonssagrives-Penn)

2nd Singapore International Photography Festival is back!

In 2008, Singapore International Photography Festival attracted a whopping 6,600 public submissions of photographic work from photographers around the world. 12% of the total submissions were the most outstanding prints, which were shortlisted and exhibited across Singapore. The submissions were not restricted to any fixed subject or theme but selected works were grouped according to various themes by the Festival’s four curators.

Now, the 2nd SIPF 2008 commences with two categories for open call. The open-ended theme category continues with the purpose of unearthing new works and talents. This year’s festival incorporates a brand new themed category titled, ‘HUMAN: NATURE’ to address universal concerns faced by the world. The duality in the theme can be freely interpreted either as ‘Human Nature’ or ‘Human & Nature’.

The ‘colon’ represents a relationship and a balanced ratio between Human and Nature. Thematically, this category is an ambitious call for creative interpretation on HUMAN: NATURE.

For more information, please visit www.sipf.sg

About Singapore International Photography Festival

The Singapore International Photography Festival (SIPF) is the first event of its kind in Southeast Asia. This biennial festival strives to provide a platform for Southeast Asian artists to showcase their works alongside their international peers at various venues across Singapore.

The three main festival components are the official exhibitions, workshops and a 2-day portfolio review session for 50 selected Southeast Asian photographers. This will be followed by a series of workshops facilitated by curators and senior photographers for 40 participants. Alongside the official exhibitions and programmes, the SIPF Fringe activities will be carried out at various arts galleries, arts spaces and education institutions to promote photography across Singapore.

Singapore International Photography Festival Office:

OldSchool, 11b Mount Sophia, #B2-09, Singapore 228466.

Tel: +65 6339 8655/ +65 6339 2355 Fax: +65 6339 5030

For general enquiries: info@sipf.com.sg

For exhibition enquiries: exhibition@sipf.com.sg