The city in our impression: high-rise buildings, surrounded by reinforced concrete; The complicated and noisy urban life makes it difficult to find a moment of peace.
What would it be like if the city was painted with romantic macarons like fairy tale illustrations?
Photographer from SingaporeNguanTo break the stereotypes of Singapore as a city: "clean", "efficient", "Merlion" and "Marina Bay Sands"......
With his unique "Nguan aesthetic", he shows the super gentle and healing side of Singapore.
So, how does he create urban images that heal dreams?
Let's study together today ~
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Exclusive shade: Macaron
· Lazy light pink, gentle and healing, starts a journey of dreamy images ·
In my impression, urban architecture is strong and rigid, and there is an inexplicable feeling of coldness in urban space.
But none of this seems to exist inNguanImages of the city. He re-examined the city of Singapore with an almost gentle lens recording method.
His photos have their own color-Macaron color, this prominenceLow saturation color system of "pink sense", it looks "pink and tender", like strawberry milkshake, soft and sweet.
All urban buildings and urban spaces are braving "pink bubbles".
The spiral stairs surrounded by pink are like young girls dancing one by one, gentle and agile, becomingNguanA frequent visitor in the camera。
That pink image, scattered in all corners of the city, gives Singapore a sense ofGentle、CureThe romantic color of.
Perhaps, you would think that these photos are covered with a layer of "pink filter", but in fact they are not.
The dreamy macaron tones in these images are formed by the interaction between the setting sun and the film.
NguanLike inTwo hours before sunsetWhen going out to shoot, he is keen to capture those gentle moments, gentle light and shadow and gentle colors with the pure mechanical Fuji medium-format camera in 1990 s.
These elements contain the vitality of the city of Singapore and become the driving force for his constant pursuit.
If you ask me how gentle people take pictures, I think it's probablyNguanLet's do it. (I really love it. I love it ~)
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Pay attention to detail: life in the corner
· Detailed description, the simpler it is, the more realistic it is ·
The capture of urban images is diversified and multi-faceted. Sometimes, life in those seemingly inconspicuous corners is also an important part of gentle healing images.
Just like paying attention to details of lifeNguan, he often leaves the camera for daily trivial pictures.
The ordinary and ordinary daily scenes in Singapore contain the temperature of life and are full of life.
The photos he took are really life-like, allowing us to see the most grounded side of urban images.
Clothes, towels, quilts, dolls drying along the streets and hallways... also have flashing moments.
Surprisingly, those flawed, worn and cold plastic chairs are often included in his lens, which can't help but evoke people's memories of daily life.It turns out that the most common is also the most tempting.
For most people, in the fast-paced era, it is not easy to slow down and observe the ordinary life around them.
When you slow down at the right time, you will find that life is full of surprises. And inNguanIn the lens, these surprises also come from the cats met by chance in life.
When the pink macaron color meets the cute cat, every picture that is frozen is full of healing.
NguanThe cats photographed have also become a unique landscape of the city, and their various poses enrich the emotional expression of the photos.
Seeing this series of city life photos, I wonder if you have such a feeling:"The noisy city instantly turns on silent mode..."
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Connecting emotions: The relationship between cities and people
· A faint loneliness is also a normal state ·
Recording cities is inseparable from exploring the "relationship between cities and people",NguanThe same is true.
In his work, a large number of images are taken about Singapore's public living spaces. Although the photos are all warm, they reveal a faint sense of loneliness. In the noisy crowd, looking for those special protagonists isNguanGood at it.
These seemingly coincidences, but in fact, he has keen observation and can capture all kinds of pictures with storylines in ordinary scenes.
In the vast urban space, different human stories are staged every day, and all kinds of people are the protagonists in the stories.NguanUse images to connect the relationship between cities and people.
In urban life, no one can always be with each other's side, so being alone is also a normal state.
NguanHe likes to capture people who are alone in the city. In his works, we can often see people living in traditional HDB flats in Singapore who are alone. He keeps the loneliness in this city in the lens.
The photographed characters either enjoy being alone for a moment, or feel a trace of loneliness. The extension of the corridor adds a sense of visual layering, and the injection of dreamy tones makes this sense of loneliness not uncomfortable.
Faced with the fragmented daily life, everyone has different attitudes towards it, and it is a great thing to be able to transform their "what they see, hear and think" into healing images and pass them on to people around them or strangers.
Like music, images have no borders, and the emotional resonance of human beings is often the attraction of a good photo.
NguanThis courage to break people's stereotypes about a city and make familiar cities strange also encourages everyone who likes to explore city images.
I think you can also create your own city image memory!
