My reportage work has been featured in Nikon’s quarterly Focus magazine, issue 25.
It is a generous spread of 13 pages, including the cover page.
Thanks Nikon!
Below are excerpts downloaded from Nikon’s website.
Images can also be viewed on my main website.
This is my friend! My friend!!!!!
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Well done! 
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YAY! congrats babe.
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This is my my friend tooo! My friend TOOOOOOO!
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You are amazing!!!! such an inspiration !! 
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At 12, entering River Valley High School for the first time alone to buy text books and school uniforms and holding tightly to the $100 (the biggest note you ever saw) your mother gave you, was a really scary experience.
I had just received my secondary school posting and was lost yet excited.
Then I met Pauline...
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The first time I met Jason and Regina, what I thought was coffee turned out to be dinner and by the end of the meal, they had decided to engage me as their photographer for the biggest day of their lives.
They decided early on that photographic documentation was the only way they would want to...
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An overdue memo about the past year or so.
I am writing this seated by the aisle in the last row of Qatar flight to Singapore. A long queue of passengers waiting for the toilets forms up beside me, their butts sticking up my face from time to time – Not the most ideal situation to...
It may be a weather catastrophe outside of Berlin, but where I am it’s winter wonderland in every park and open space.
Did a fun shoot this afternoon with Dorit and Robert while the city’s still white.
Here are some behind the scenes, and takes from the shoot.
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It was refreshing to catch Christmas away from Singapore once in a while.
Scrapes of images of my trip to share, some of them are experimentations with a very old, but just serviced Nikon 35mm F2.8
It belongs to my father and I dug it out of his drybox (he’s long forgotten it’s there), he’s also forgotten he...
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This winter shoot marks my first shoot of 2010 and I’m glad it went this way.
I had Madari, who is the most wonderful, trusted and accommodating assistant, and Rifani and Olga, who are absolutely deeply in love.
We certainly weren’t working in comfortable temperatures so my mind was working ahead of locations all the time, who...
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