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Part of the way through the project, the film that the artist was using was discontinued by the manufacturer, giving an added poignancy to the decay and obsolescence in the pictures. To quote Simryn Gill: \"[it] embeds into the very substance of this series a sense that the time that we live in is falling into disrepair...even as we still actively occupy its present.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe photographs that make up \u003cem\u003eStanding Still\u003c\/em\u003e are beautiful yet disturbing, quiet yet visually erudite, lush yet austere; as a body of work they lie somewhere between art and archival record. They offer, simultaneously, a historical and a speculative image of a place.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSimryn Gill\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Singapore and of Indian ancestry and Malaysian citizenship. She currently resides in Sydney, Australia. 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Postage stamps, billboards, and annual national exhibitions attest to its fundamental place in a country where painters may be hailed as national heroes and including among their number fervent nationalists, propagandists, even dissidents. Painting is emerging as emblematic of Vietnam, simultaneously a marker of national identity and a commodity in a global trade network. Some artists became millionaires as Vietnamese painting gained prominence in transnational art circuits, but Vietnamese painting is generally overlooked in art history surveys of Southeast Asia. Nora Taylor sets out here to change that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDrawing on interviews with artists, cultural officers, curators, art critics, and others in Hanoi, Taylor surveys the impact artists have had on Vietnam's intellectual life. 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(he) also enters rare territory in today’s photography and art writing – criticism, and notably, advocacy and sympathy for the ‘straightness’ of more traditionally motivated and inclined practitioners of photography – outliers, if you will, to whom contemporary art establishment have more often than not, been antagonistic towards.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKevin Lee, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eInvisible Photographer Asia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #ff9900;\"\u003eYou can read up about the launch of \u003cem\u003ePhotography in Southeast Asia\u003c\/em\u003e in Singapore on October 13, 2016 on \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/invisiblephotographer.asia\/2016\/10\/17\/surveysoutheastasia-booklaunch\/\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #ff9900;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eInvisible Photographer Asia\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/nuspress.nus.edu.sg\/blogs\/news\/launch-of-photography-in-southeast-asia-in-singapore\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"color: #ff9900;\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003eNUS Press blog\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eZhuang Wubin\u003c\/strong\u003e is a writer, curator and artist. 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Kratoska\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJapanese forces invaded Malaya on 8 December 1941 and British forces surrendered in Singapore 70 days later. Japan would rule the territory for the next 3½ years. Early efforts to maintain pre-war standards of comfort gave way to a grim struggle for survival as the vibrant economy ground to a halt and residents struggled to deal with unemployment, shortages of consumer goods, sharp price rises, a thriving black market and widespread corruption. People were hungry, dressed in rags, and falling victim to treatable diseases for which medicines were unavailable, and there was little reason to hope for better in the future.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eUsing surviving administrative papers, oral materials, intelligence reports and post-war accounts by Japanese officers, this book presents a picture of life in occupied Malaya and Singapore. 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What’s it like to be a successful restaurateur in a ruthlessly competitive market? How did a young Thai woman come to work in a hostess bar? Is an academic ghostwriter undermining or shoring up a world-famous education system? How does a drag performer explain her profession to her conservative parents? And what does an elderly tissue vendor make of the momentous changes she’s seen in Singapore since independence?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: inherit;\"\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eHard at Work\u003c\/em\u003e, sixty people talk about work and life in contemporary Singapore. Their stories shed light not just on Singapore’s present but also its past and its future, and reveal the nation as a place where people from around the world work hard to survive and sometimes thrive in a modern global city. The book offers readers a unique opportunity to look beyond the nation’s iconic skyline and gleaming surfaces to explore the diverse experiences of work and life in Singapore today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e“Their stories provide as good a glimpse of life as it really is in Singapore: raw, unfiltered, and in flowing Singlish.” \u003cbr\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eHan Fook Kwang, \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Straits Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x_MsoNormal\" style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: inherit;\"\u003e\"What an important effort this is for our highly diverse, changing society: to hear and to listen to strangers' stories, as directly as possible. Besides giving voice to working people, \u003cem\u003eHard at Work\u003c\/em\u003e taps into the current discussions about inequality in Singapore society, and exposes the untidiness and struggle that ordinary workers face.\" \u003cbr\u003e- \u003cstrong\u003eHo Kwon Ping,\u003c\/strong\u003e Chairman, \u003cem\u003eSingapore Management University\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The volume takes the readers on a journey into the layered, complex world of work, portraying the pathos and veracities of working lives without romanticizing or glorifying these. 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