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Chingay 2014

Of Colour // Of Spirit

By gent

February 28^th, 2014

I. Huat

In my line of work, sometimes I get opportunities to be involved in major events. This means access to areas I wouldn’t have in normal circumstances. This is one of those times where I’m grateful to be thrust right in the thick of the action.

Chingay is an annual event in Singapore that celebrates the diversity of cultures in the nation. Volunteer community performers come from all walks of life and congregate to entertain by way of dance and massive floating structures that depict various attractions. It’s a most colourful and vibrant event if ever you saw one. Call it the Rio Carnival of South-East Asia, if you will.

I took a lot of photographs - of dancers and of those fabulous floats.

HUAT: an expression in Hokkien - a dialect - to mean to come into fortune. It's just a very Chinese thing here in Singapore. Don't ask me why this title.

What are these photos about?

Ii. SPIRITUS

People. They take my breath away. Beyond skin, beneath pigmentation, between you and I, what have we but spirit.

What are these photos about?

Footnotes

All photographs taken by me with the Fujifilm X-E1 and two lenses, the Fujinon XF 23/1.4 and the 35/1.4. With thanks to the People's Association of Singapore

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FootNotes

All photographs taken by me with the Fujifilm X-E1 and two lenses, the Fujinon XF 23/1.4 and the 35/1.4. With thanks to the People's Association of Singapore

The One Rally I Made It To

Chingay 2014

Of Colour // Of Spirit

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