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Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureOdd and Even Odd/Even brings together 10 photographers responding to the Lorongs of Geylang, a neighbourhood historically organised by odd- and even-numbered street...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureTwo People For more than a decade, Sean Lee has returned to the same two people, photographing his parents as they move...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureFive Years from Tomorrow From bustling industrial fringes to cherished neighbourhood shops, urbanization is quietly reshaping daily life in Singapore. Photography duo Sam &...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureWhat Remains: A Dialogue across time VITRINE by Yeo Workshop presents What Remains: A Dialogue across time, placing works by Singaporean artists Wei Leng Tay and...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureNotes on Home: A Reflective Writing Workshop When we speak of “home”, what is the first thing that comes to your mind? Facilitated by Migrant Writers of...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureThe worlds we traverse, the worlds that linger: Curator Guided Walkthrough Join the exhibition curator Lenette Lua for a close examination of the affective textures of domestic space in Singapore. Together,...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureThe Possibility of Perceiving Home What is home? Is it merely a structure that shelters us, or is it a felt sense—an experience of being...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureInside Singapore Index: An Artist Tour with Tan Pin Pin Join acclaimed filmmaker and artist Tan Pin Pin for a guided tour of Singapore Index, followed by an audience Q&A....

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureFrame within a Frame Tan Pin Pin in conversation with Selene Yap Explore the formative years of acclaimed Singaporean filmmaker Tan Pin Pin and...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureThe Gritty Geylang PhotoTrek Close to the heart of Singapore’s downtown, Geylang is known by many names. Yet, there is so much more to...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureResidency Diaries: A.i.R #1 Step into the creative processes of four artists from DECK’s Artist-in-Residence programme through an afternoon of conversations and shared discoveries....

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureI spy with my little eye Step away from the screens and onto the streets! Join us for I spy with my little eye, a family-orientated...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureCAN is CAN: A Typographic Photo Walk & Poster Workshop This event is organised by the National Library Board (NLB) in conjunction with SIPF. Celebrate one of Singapore’s most recognisable...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureSingapore Everyday Tan Pin Pin in conversation with Alfian Sa’at Join acclaimed filmmaker and artist Tan Pin Pin and Alfian Sa’at...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureDialogue: photo + book + sg = ? [update] Special guest, Kevin WY Lee, Founder of Invisible Photographer Asia (IPA) and Man of Spice, will also be present. ...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureWhat In The Photobook? Boon Lay Photo Club x SIPF Book Club Join SIPF’s first-ever public Book Club, an initiative by Boon Lay Photo...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureAfterimage: The Zine-Making Process This event is organised by the National Library Board (NLB) in conjunction with SIPF. Afterimage invites participants to explore the...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureBoon Lay Photo Club: An Image to A Narrative This event is organised by the National Library Board (NLB) in conjunction with SIPF. How does a collection of photographs...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureOn Collecting Photographs Dialogue Session with Dr. John Chia and Dr. Cheryl Loh / Goh Chun Aik / Theresia Irma What draws us...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureCall & Response: A Mindful Photowalk Explore the streets and textures of Geylang in this atypical photography workshop conducted in pairs. Whether you come alone or...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureStories & Sense Of Space: Passing by Paradise Post-Residency Artist Talk We are Dorothy Wong Ka Chung and Benjamin Ryser, a Hong Kong-Swiss artist duo working with images and sound; our...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureGuided Exhibition Walkthrough: States of Becoming & In Circles The last in a series guided exhibition walkthroughs, join SIPF staff, Assistant Producers Cavin Lim and Luna Chang, and SIPF...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureGuided Exhibition Walkthrough: What We Carry Forward The third in a series of guided exhibition walkthroughs on Shifting Images, join artists Alecia Neo, Noor Iskandar, and Mintio at...

Singapore International Photography FestivalCultureGuided Exhibition Walkthrough: Image after Image & Systems of Seeing The second in a series of guided exhibition walkthroughs, join artist Jonathan Liu for an afternoon at Gillman Barracks, where...

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The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo