Sparked by a lonely train ride on the eve of my 23rd birthday, I began to consider the trips of growing, and how its only during these landmarks we recollect such childhood memories of birthday cakes and the colorful toys/figurines on top of them. I think I often imagine myself to be part of this toy collection, merry-making, and to connect with the child within me.
COMMONWEALTH PHOTOGRAPHIC AWARDS 2010 // JUDGES SELECT // TOP 10
This piece, titled Fantasies of a Concrete Jungle explores on the societal conflict between technology, human, and nature. As a society progresses on and embarks on more technological exploits that comes at the price of nature, one wonders we would get to experience this natural warmth…
Black and white photography, the truth. Truth has a timeless quality to it, much like the visuals of pure black and white. One wouldn’t notice the grays per se, one notices the representation, one notices the subject. This series, aims at the distrustful nature of this certain portrayal of realism often seek upon within our society…
Client: The Chinese Wedding Shop
A publication based on the travels of Roy Wang and Jarryl Chia to Vietnam, Stories and Photographs written and taken by both of them while travelling in Dec 09.
A work born out of an exploration trip down to Little India, Singapore. Taking on a drifting approach, (allowing one to wander freely guided by free will) and visually documenting the entire experience of sight, smell, experience, and also the typography in the environment, I started to see…
Fuck the norm, embrace change.
Its amazing how our minds start to disassociates unclear matter from their nature, and abstracts their shapes and colors in order to understand, by relating to other familiar objects. My work, uses water as a medium to adopt the colors and shapes…
A publication based on the travels of Roy Wang and Jarryl Chia to during one night, employing a concept of ‘drifting’ across a selected area without a distinct plan or direction, while simultaneously experiencing the same environment through 2 different perspectives. Stories and Photographs written and taken by both of them while travelling in Apr 09.
Film made by Roy Wang, Apr 2009 — About dreams. About the power of narration And about the child in me.