A bunch of Designers and Tourists @ Berlin

35mm Minolta

Never Thought I Could Do That

A photography project looking at areas that we have never done. I chose oysters as my topic because although I dislike raw food but people always mentioned how good oysters are, so I set myself a challenge to 'try' and taste oyster. And through photographs I conveyed the idea of the repulsion that I always get when thinking about raw food especially having already tried oysters, it made me feel nauseous even thinking about it.

I showed this through a series of photographs, using a glass as a symbolism of my stomach, I created an atmosphere from a 'clean' stomach to a 'filthy' and 'stained' stomach.

Scoliosis

A one week self-initiated project about scoliosis. For those who do not know what scoliosis is: it is an abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.

A series of photographs taken to make people understand how it feels like to have scoliosis - a condition I was diagnosed with 5 years ago. In order to illustrate the discomfort I experience, I had individuals imitate a crooked standing position consistent with the shape of my spine, and then try to hold that particular pose for an extended period of time. This illustrates the amount of discomfort scoliosis inflicted individuals have to put up with everyday, due to their internal spines being crooked.

The display is purposely done in an angle and descending in order to make the audience experience the discomfort.

During the experiment and testing stage, videos are taken in order to capture the individuals facial expressions and movement. (which I will be putting up soon when I finish editing them)

Whitechapel Photo

Mini Blackouts

Blinking is just as important as breathing. It is considered that every time we blink, a 'mini blackouts' is formed. Although this mini blackouts does not interupt our views of the world but if it adds up, we loss quite a lot of information in a day, month and year.

Experimentation 1:

3 blinking calendars were made based on a flipbook format. 30 or 31 (days in a month) alternating black and white papers were compiled to produce a calendar. The total minutes lost in that calendar month were revealed as the calendar is flipped from back to front.

Experimentation 2:

Using one part of a famous speech - Martin Luther King, "I Have A Dream", the loss of information through blinking were illustrated by crossing out words when reading the speech.

An audio was produced from Martin Luther King's "I Have A Dream" speech. Every two seconds of the speech, 0.3 seconds of the audio is erased (the blink) - to demonstrate the idea of an information loss.

The visual impact of blinking is translated into hearing to stress the image imperfection.

In addition, a video is produced to highlight the visual and auditory concept.

Layouts

I've been practising some layouting spreads in InDesign. Playing around with the grids and texts. To be able to present the correct fonts for different type of spreads is quite difficult. Instead of making 2 double spreads that has a theme going on, I got carried away and made different theme for each spreads.

The first spread, is an advertisement spread for an individual company 'wongfuproduction' that is based in USA - promoting their event. The second spread, has an actual information of The Yas Hotel in Dubai, a spread aimed for the type of magazine such as travel guide. The third spread is based on a spread that can be found inside a collection of photographer's book.

The fourth spread is designed for Shinichi Maruyama (Artist) book cover where the images were taken from his own photographs.