Mark Gernaut, a creative director at Spark Media Lab, was at the Old School for the opening of the Singpore International Photography Festival yesterday. He writes his thoughts and first impressions of the show on his blog, Creative Spark.

November 13-16, 2008

Inspiration: action, influence, ideas

Keynote: Alec Soth, Magnum Photos
School Sponsor: Academy of Art University, in San Francisco, CA.

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Mitch De Leon recently featured my work in his blog, SlashMaraud. He posed some great questions and I enjoyed answering them.

Some of my images are featured on Where we're From, an online exhibit curated by Lindley Warren of weprojects.org.

Where we're From is a project focusing on where it is that the selected photographers have grown up, lived, or are currently living. The project allows viewers an inside look at places that the artists have felt at home; letting people take a closer look at the lives of the photographers through their images and words.

Scheduled to take place from 8 to 31 October 2008, 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 in various venues such as National Museum of Singapore, The Arts House, 2902 Photo Gallery and more.

3 central components of the SIPF are the official exhibitions, workshops and portfolio review. The festival kick starts with exhibition openings and 2 days of portfolio review sessions for up to 50 Southeast Asian photographers, followed by a series of workshops facilitated by curators and senior photographers for up to 45 Southeast Asian photographers. Selection for workshops/portfolio reviews is based on project submissions.

Open to public are a series of evening presentation by invited curators, artists and festival directors. Over the weekends are series of public lectures and forum to share thoughts, ideas, issues and current trends in photography.

Along with the official exhibitions and programme, is SIPF Fringe which counts on the participation of arts galleries, arts spaces and education institutions to promote photography across Singapore.

The festival curators have made a careful selection out of over 6,600 works submitted for exhibition. The selected artists for the inaugural Singapore International Photography Festival 2008 are listed below.

AFRICA

ARGENTINA

AUSTRALIA

ASIA

EUROPE

USA

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