Detritus
2024
Documentary Photography, Forensic Observation, Urban Infrastructure
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? — who watches the watchmen? Detritus surveys the communal spaces where function quietly yields to neglect. Informed by Newman's Defensible Space Theory (1972), the series adopts the dispassionate gaze of forensic photography, rendering each frame as a specimen of evidence. In studied isolation, it catalogues the gradual material entropy of the overlooked: rubbish receptacles, fractured signage, stray papers, and derelict tools.
As the lens traverses architecture's margins — service entries, dead corners, overflow zones — patterns of deterioration and makeshift maintenance surface. Warning signs stand sentinel over vacant chambers; provisional solutions calcify into permanence. Beneath the cold fidelity of fluorescent light, order frays. Detritus lays bare the raw nerve of municipal upkeep, where each forgotten periphery becomes a repository of collective memory — and its spaces, left unvigilant.
Love Death Peace
2024
Documentary Photography, Architectural Memory, Urbex
Memory attends the Peace Centre's gradual decay and eventual demolition. Through photography, the series immortalises the monument, arresting it against time. Each frame juxtaposes the abandoned interior with the inevitability of its fate — and in that tension, acknowledges the transience of all existence. Decay emerges not as an adversary, but as a companion to form.
E-temen an-ki
2024
Documentary Photography, Urban Ecology, Nature
An homage to the legendary ziggurat of ancient Babylon — the Etemenanki, "house of the foundation of heaven and earth" — this series celebrates the symbiotic entanglement of the natural environment and humanity's sacred architecture. Indigenous flora thread through man-made structures; root and ruin intertwine. This union prefigures a landscape destined to reclaim the very locales from which its materials were wrenched — an ironic recursion, as humanity labors to erect its modern ziggurat.
Yet unlike its ancient antecedent, which sought to transcend language and reach toward the divine, this contemporary striving is propelled by self-serving ambition. It pursues not spiritual elevation but the fulfilment of private desire. And where the old myth records the loss of language as punishment for hubris, a new penalty now looms: the loss of habitat. The fragile balance between progress and preservation tilts, and the ground itself prepares its reckoning.
Mistik
2023
Still Life Photography, Sufism, Malay Archipelago
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A person who seeks unity with the divine through contemplation and self-surrender.
A person who believes in the spiritual apprehension of truths beyond the intellect.
Mistik offers a visually arresting meditation on Islamic mysticism, attending to the distinctive expressions of Sufism across the Malay Archipelago. The series traces the tangible and intangible dimensions of the Sufi path — a voyage of self-annihilation, divine love, and spiritual unveiling. Each carefully composed still-life functions as a microcosm of Sufi symbolism and practice, a silent threshold where matter gestures toward mystery.
Shadow & Sin
2023
Portrait Photography, Human Duality, Identity
Shadow & Sin is a stark photographic inquiry into human duality. At its centre stands a man clad in a pink polo shirt — an emblem of societal conformity — set against shadowed, austere backdrops. The visual juxtaposition lays bare the rift between our curated public personas and the tumultuous inner selves we so often refuse.
Through the calculated orchestration of light and shadow, the series compels viewers to scrutinise their own self-perception. Scattered objects — a lighter here, a pair of sunglasses there — function as tangible metaphors for the complexities we harbour, inviting us not to eschew these fractured aspects of our nature, but to embrace them.
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